Re: [Anima] two EST question/suggestions

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Tue, 12 September 2017 20:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Anima] two EST question/suggestions
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On 9/12/17 10:03 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 13/09/2017 02:33, Eliot Lear wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> I agree a statement that HTTP2 etc is ok so long as it doesn’t change the possible client state machine…  ?
>> You need an MTI, and it should be the easiest and most compact thing to
>> implement.  While CoAP would be optimal, HTTP/1.1 is more than
>> sufficient, and the features in 2 in this case are not only unnecessary,
>> but undesirable overhead.
> I am a bit bothered by the assumption that all devices of interest can be assumed
> to include X, for whatever value of X we deem to be MTI. Or are you only
> intending MTI to apply at the server end?

Hmm.  Actually, I don't like my own text precisely for the reason you
state.  But I do think we don't want to create a plethora of choices. 
There is an interoperability issue here that has to be addressed.

>
> It seems to me that we want to minimise the requirements for low end pledge
> devices, and every item that we make mandatory works against that.
>
>     

Right, but we need to have something there.

Eliot