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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
 This draft is a work item of the Constrained RESTful Environments Working Group of the IETF.

	Title           : Blockwise transfers in CoAP
	Author(s)       : Carsten Bormann
                          Zach Shelby
	Filename        : draft-ietf-core-block-11.txt
	Pages           : 29
	Date            : 2013-03-30

Abstract:
   CoAP is a RESTful transfer protocol for constrained nodes and
   networks.  Basic CoAP messages work well for the small payloads we
   expect from temperature sensors, light switches, and similar
   building-automation devices.  Occasionally, however, applications
   will need to transfer larger payloads -\u002D for instance, for
   firmware updates.  With HTTP, TCP does the grunt work of slicing
   large payloads up into multiple packets and ensuring that they all
   arrive and are handled in the right order.

   CoAP is based on datagram transports such as UDP or DTLS, which
   limits the maximum size of resource representations that can be
   transferred without too much fragmentation.  Although UDP supports
   larger payloads through IP fragmentation, it is limited to 64 KiB
   and, more importantly, doesn't really work well for constrained
   applications and networks.

   Instead of relying on IP fragmentation, this specification extends
   basic CoAP with a pair of "Block" options, for transferring multiple
   blocks of information from a resource representation in multiple
   request-response pairs.  In many important cases, the Block options
   enable a server to be truly stateless: the server can handle each
   block transfer separately, with no need for a connection setup or
   other server-side memory of previous block transfers.

   In summary, the Block options provide a minimal way to transfer
   larger representations in a block-wise fashion.

   The present revision -11 fixes one example and adds the text and
   examples about the Block/Observe interaction, taken from -observe.
   It also adds a couple of formatting bugs from the new xml2rfc.  The
   "grand rewrite" is next.


The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-core-block

There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-core-block-11

A diff from the previous version is available at:
http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-core-block-11


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ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/

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