Re: [ESDS] Proposed Charter - update

[Kary Främling <[e-mail]>]

Dear Ali,

I personally find your proposal well structured, clear and a good 
initiative to work on (as usually with your proposals on ESDS). It would 
require some more thought to allow me to provide any improvement 
proposals - but at least I think your initiative deserves a response! I 
am surprised that there hasn't been more reactions on the list about this?

The again, some quick comments:
- It would be good to separate the "charter" part more clearly from the 
"work item current status and summary" part; I didn't notice the 
separation straight away.
- From the charter, it is hard to see whether ESDS will provide 
discovery only of information sources or also access to the actual 
information. The same old question...

Best regards,

  Kary
> Dear ESDS members,
>
> We have had considerable progress on the Discovery Services protocol 
> discussions. I have summarized current status on some of the ESDS work 
> items and updated our charter. Our charter is modified to include 
> secure and restricted discovery for the broader Internet community.
>
> Please review and comment.
>
> Best Regards,
> Ali Rezafard
>
> ESDS Charter:
> ESDS has been chartered to architect and define a protocol for Discovery
> Services. Discovery Services at its core offers to authenticated and 
> authorized
> users the means to discover sources of information for a particular 
> object.
> Discovery Services can be implemented as a decentralized directory of 
> resources
> indexed by a shared identifier. Discovery Services need to be 
> deployable in
> both closed networks as well as open and global networks such as 
> Internet.
>
> ESDS will develop interfaces for users of Discovery Services as well 
> as an
> interface for peer-to-peer communication among Discovery Services. 
> ESDS will
> develop interfaces for publishing data, submitting onetime queries, and
> registering for standing queries.  ESDS should support utilization of 
> a trusted
> external identity management service for Authentication. ESDS should 
> enable
> configuration of Authorization and Access Control for publishing clients.
>
> Work item current status and summary:
> 1.Initial Conventions
>
>     a) Define common vocabulary and terminology.
>     http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/esds/current/msg00085.html
>     http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/esds/current/msg00087.html
>
>     b) Define core data sets for sharing on Discovery Service,
>     There are two sets of core data fields, one for data being 
> published, and
>     another for the data returned in response to a query.
>     Publishing data fields:
>         required data fields:
>             URI object identifier (what)
>             Publish timestamp (server timestamp)
>             Service list of URLs (links)
>             Event class (event type attributes, such as TTL)
>             URI of event publisher (who)
>         optional data fields:
>             Lifecycle step (why)
>             Event timestamp (client timestamp)
>             Change in identifier (aggregation, disaggregation, 
> relabeling)
>         example extensible data fields:
>             Where (bizLocation)
>             Transaction data (PO, AWB, Invoice)
>
>     Query response data fields:
>         required data fields:
>             URI object identifier (what)
>         optional data fields:
>             Publish timestamp (server timestamp)
>             Service list of URLs (links)
>             Event class (event type attributes, such as TTL)
>             URI of event publisher (who)
>             Lifecycle step (why)
>             Event timestamp (client timestamp)
>             Change in identifier (aggregation, disaggregation, 
> relabeling)
>         example extensible data fields:
>             Where (bizLocation)
>             Transaction data (PO,AWB,Invoice)
>
>     c) Define handling for time zones.
>     ESDS will only support UTC timestamps
>
>     d) Define handling for Aggregation, Disaggregation, and Relabeling 
> events.
>     These events are useful for expressing when it may be necessary to 
> track
>     a different identifier in order to follow the same object.
>     http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/esds/current/msg00101.html
>
>     e) Define handling for Transaction events. These events would 
> associate (or
>     disassociate) one or more object identifiers from the identifier of
>     a business transaction or document.
>
> 2.Security
>
>     a) Considerations for access control policies and their impact on 
> Work
>     Items 3 and 4.
>
>     b) Define security architecture and mechanisms for authorization,
>     authentication , encryption (e.g. integrating security 
> certificates into
>     the protocol vs. relying on a security layer such as SSL).
>     http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/esds/current/msg00104.html
>
>     c) Define a common interface and roles for access control 
> configuration
>     (e.g. supply chain, partner, user).
>
>     d) Define a mechanism for verifying digitally signed DS events 
> published.
>     The challenge is that the DS may need to validate the signatures 
> for signed
>     events it receives and log whether the data underlying a link was 
> from a
>     verifiable signed source.  i.e. the DS should log and indicate the 
> presence
>     of a verified signature in the query response (especially when it 
> does not
>     pass the whole signed event record to the query client).
>
> 3.Publishing Interface
>
>     a) Define mechanism for uniquely identifying objects in a scope 
> without
>     requiring a global unique identifier for each and all objects that 
> enter a
>     scope (e.g. supply chain).
>     Closed deployments of DS can utilize internal numbering 
> authority/rule and
>     to make the identifier globally unique prefix it with a registered 
> domain
>     name.
>     http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/esds/current/msg00114.html
>
>     b) Define a protocol for advertising/publishing data resources 
> (Resource
>     Discovery).
>
>     c) Define a protocol and policy for retracting or voiding 
> published data.
>
>     d) Define policies for updating stale and broken links (e.g. for 
> events
>     with a long retention period, it is vital that links can be 
> updated, when
>     required).
>     Publisher profile described in BRIDGE's "High level design for 
> Discovery
>     Services" will address this requirement:
>     http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/esds/current/pdfuMVBqNwBjM.pdf
>
>     e) Define a mechanism to enable linking Discovery Service servers 
> together
>     (e.g. retrieving information about the entire lifecycle of a 
> product as it
>     moves through various supply chains).
>     a record that points to another DS (instead of an information 
> source) In
>     this case, the query client application may choose to make a 
> separate query
>     to the other DS, not necessarily involving any involvement of the 
> original
>     DS (other than if DS1 is required to provide a federated trust 
> token to the
>     client that it can present to DS2).
>
> 4.Query Interface
>
>     a) Define a protocol for querying published data, supporting both
>     one-time queries and standing queries (e.g. pull vs. push queries).
>
>     b) Determine how aggregation and disaggregation events should be 
> handled
>     including policies for access control and visibility of these 
> events (e.g.
>     a pallet is broken down into boxes and each box has its own 
> destination
>     supply chain and access policy).
>     Refer to 1.d above.
>
>     c) Determine if multilayer information visibility is required 
> (e.g. a query
>     with limited access can be informed of the existence of 
> information for a
>     particular object, but to view the actual information, full access
>     privileges would be required. This has particular implications for
>     peer-to-peer searching across multiple Discovery Services).
>
>     d) Determine if Discovery Services should facilitate an access 
> negotiation
>     process (e.g. a query client negotiates for access to information 
> from an
>     organization in the situation where the information-providing 
> organization
>     does not have an established business (trust) relationship with 
> the client
>     and therefore chooses initially not to reveal its identity to the 
> client).
>
> 5.DS-DS Peer Communications Interface
>
>     a) Define a protocol for inter-DS  querying.
>         Initial draft of approach to DS federation
>         1) Each DS holds an index of neighboring DSs (URLs) in its DS 
> federation.
>         2) A propagating-query is sent to a DS.
>         3) The DS forwards the propagating-query to DSs listed in its 
> index and
>         waits for the replies. The DS also appends its DS index to the
>         propagating-query, so that the same DS is not queried multiple 
> times.
>         4) Each DS that receives the propagating-query will perform 
> step 3 on
>         DSs which are not queried already.
>         5) Each DS will review the propagating-query and decides 
> whether it is
>         interested in volunteering to receive the actual query.
>         6) Each DS will wait until a specified deadline is passed for its
>         federation neighbors to reply back.
>         7) Once that period has passed, it will merge the received 
> replies
>         along with its own reply and send it back to the initiating DS.
>         8) The first DS will send back to the client a list of DSs (URLs)
>         which have replied.
>         Note: All above actions are voluntarily for any DS server. A 
> server
>         could provide discovery Services without opting into 
> forwarding or
>         replying to any propagating-queries.
>
>     b) Architect a bootstrapping policy for objects while ensuring 
> security and
>     confidentiality (e.g. locating one or more Discovery Services for a
>     product which is mis-delivered).
>
>     c) Define a procedure for a Discovery Service server to join or 
> leave a
>     federation of Discovery Services. This could potentially involve some
>     manual operations (e.g. physically validating identity of a DS 
> operator).
>
>
>
> On 5-Feb-08, at 6:40PM, Ali Rezafard wrote:
>
>> Dear ESDS group,
>>
>> Thanks for your responses to the initial proposed charter. Attached 
>> is the updated charter based on your feedback and comments by IAB and 
>> IESG. Please review and comment.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Ali Rezafard
>>
>> Extensible Supply-chain Discovery Service (ESDS)
>>
>> Chair(s):
>>    Mark Harrison <mark.harrison at cantab.net>
>> Applications Area Director(s):
>>    Lisa Dusseault <lisa at osafoundation.org>
>>    Chris Newman <chris.newman at sun.com>
>> Applications Area Advisor:
>>    Lisa Dusseault <lisa at osafoundation.org>
>> Mailing List(s):
>>    esds at ietf.org
>> General information about the mailing list is at:
>>    https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/esds
>>
>> Purpose of Working Group:
>> The use of Supply chain Tracking Systems is rising at an 
>> unprecedented rate,
>> particularly as various industry sectors are increasingly adopting 
>> automatic
>> identification technologies such as Radio-Frequency Identification 
>> (RFID) to
>> automatically track individual physical objects as they move through 
>> a supply
>> chain.  Rather than tracking at batch or lot level, the ultimate goal 
>> of this
>> technology is that each individual physical object will have its own 
>> unique
>> ID, which can be used to gather and retrieve complete lifecycle 
>> information
>> about the object, which is fragmented across the supply chain. 
>> Deployment of
>> these systems has grown to a point where they can no longer operate
>> effectively in isolation from other systems.  There is a need to 
>> share data
>> among these disparate systems, which are owned and operated by separate
>> organizations.
>>
>> ESDS has been chartered to architect and define the protocol of a 
>> Discovery
>> Service for global supply chains. ESDS's goal is to enable searching for
>> information on physical objects flowing in a supply chain, by 
>> authorized and
>> authenticated users.  Economic and technical factors dictate that 
>> Discovery
>> Services and their protocol ESDS must be designed for deployment on the
>> Internet. Access control, data protection and security are of utmost
>> importance, due to sensitivity and value of the information generated 
>> by the
>> supply chain.
>>
>> Work Items:
>> The work group will address to the following work items:
>> 1.Initial Conventions
>>    a)Define common vocabulary and terminology
>>    b)Define core data sets for sharing on Discovery Service, including
>>    required data fields, optional data fields, and extensible data 
>> fields
>>    (e.g. who, what, when, where, why, links, identifier, lifecycle, 
>> class,
>>    etc.)
>>    c)Define handling for time zones (e.g. accepting only UTC 
>> timestamps vs.
>>    accepting timestamps with any timezone)
>> 2.Security
>>    a)Considerations for access control policies and their impact on Work
>>    Items 3 and 4
>>    b)Define security architecture and mechanisms for authorization,
>>    authentication , encryption (e.g. integrating security 
>> certificates into
>>    the protocol vs. relying on a security layer such as SSL)
>>    c)Define a common interface and roles for access control 
>> configuration
>>    (e.g. supply chain, partner, user )
>> 3.Publishing Interface
>>    a)Define mechanism for uniquely identifying objects in a supply chain
>>    without requiring a global unique identifier for each and all 
>> objects that
>>    enter a supply chain
>>    b)Define a protocol for advertising/publishing data resources 
>> (Resource
>>    Discovery)
>>    c)Define a protocol and policy for retracting or voiding published 
>> data
>>    d)Define policies for updating stale and broken links (e.g. for 
>> records
>>    with a long retention period, it is vital that links can be 
>> updated, when
>>    required)
>> 4.Query Interface
>>    a)Define a protocol for querying published data, facilitating both
>>    one-time queries and standing queries (e.g. pull vs. push queries)
>>    b)Determine how aggregation and disaggregation events should be 
>> handled
>>    including policies for access control and visibility of these 
>> events (e.g.
>>    a pallet is broken down into boxes and each box has its own 
>> destination
>>    supply chain and access policy)
>>    c)Determine if multilayer information visibility is required (e.g. 
>> a query
>>    with limited access can be informed of the existence of 
>> information for a
>>    particular object, but to view the actual information, full access
>>    privileges would be required. This has particular implications for
>>    peer-to-peer searching across multiple Discovery Services)
>> 5.DS-DS Peer Communications Interface
>>    a)Architect a bootstrapping policy for objects while ensuring 
>> security and
>>    confidentiality (e.g. locating one or more Discovery Services for a
>>    product which is mis-delivered)
>>    b)Define a peer-to-peer protocol to enable linking Discovery Service
>>    servers together (e.g. retrieving information about the entire 
>> lifecycle
>>    of a product as it moves through various supply chains)
>>    c)Determine if Discovery Services should facilitate peer-to-peer 
>> access
>>    negotiation process (e.g. a query client negotiates for access to
>>    information from an organization in the situation where the
>>    information-providing organization does not have an established 
>> business
>>    (trust) relationship with the client and therefore chooses 
>> initially not
>>    to reveal its identity to the client)
>>
>> Goals and Milestones:
>> Done            Submit a draft problem statement
>> April 2008      Submit a document outlining the Initial Conventions
>> July 2008       Submit a draft on requirements for Security
>> September 2008  Submit a draft requirements for Publishing Interface
>> November 2008   Submit a draft proposed protocol for Publishing 
>> Interface
>> January 2008    Submit a draft on requirements for Query Interface
>> March 2009      Submit a draft proposed protocol for Query Interface
>> May 2009        Submit a draft on requirements for DS-DS peer 
>> Communications Interface
>> July 2009       Submit a draft proposed protocol for DS-DS peer 
>> Communications Interface
>>
>> Current Internet-Drafts:
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-rezafard-esds-problem-statement-00.txt 
>>
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-young-esds-concepts-03.txt
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-thompson-esds-commands-02.txt
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-thompson-esds-schema-02.txt
>>
>> Further Background Reading:
>> BRIDGE project - Requirements for Discovery Services
>> http://www.bridge-project.eu/data/File/BRIDGE%20WP02%20Serial%20level%20lookup%20Requirements.pdf 
>>
>>
>> BRIDGE project - high-level design for Discovery Services
>> http://www.bridge-project.eu/data/File/BRIDGE%20WP02%20High%20level%20design%20Discovery%20Services.pdf 
>>
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