A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Stateful Observation in CoAP Author(s) : Changsha Ma Peilin Hong Kaiping Xue Filename : draft-ma-core-stateful-observe-02.txt Pages : 16 Date : 2013-06-24 Abstract: The Observe Option allows a CoAP client to observe changes in the state of resources and obtain a current representation of the last resource state. To be an observer of an origin server's resources, the client is required to register its interest with the server. A successful registration will make the client added into the server's observation list, while a failed one MAY drive the client to re- register. However, repeated and frequent re-registrations cannot guarantee the client to eventually become an observer of the target server. In the case that the server is unable or unwilling to accept an observer, the time-intensive re-registrations will just bring redundant messages in the constrained network and considerable energy consumption on both the client and the server. This memo defines a new CoAP option, State, for providing stateful observation on the resources of CoAP servers. By observing the state of the server in terms of the Observe Option, a client can explicitly learn when the server will not actively reject an observation registration, and then can wisely performs the re-registration. This avoids the potential registration flooding that causes considerable network overhead and energy consumption on the constrained nodes. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ma-core-stateful-observe There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ma-core-stateful-observe-02 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ma-core-stateful-observe-02 Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt