Re: [Fud] Charter Text

Olaf Bergmann <bergmann@tzi.org> Tue, 08 August 2017 10:50 UTC

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From: Olaf Bergmann <bergmann@tzi.org>
To: Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net>
Cc: Emmanuel Baccelli <Emmanuel.Baccelli@inria.fr>, fud@ietf.org
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Hi Hannes,

Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net> writes:

> I believe Emmanuel needs to tell us a bit more about the use case he has
> in mind.

And of course others as well. Hannes did a good outline of what he
thinks should be addressed. Those who have use cases that are not
covered by this should speak up.

> The use cases I would like to cover are:
>
> - a developer creates a single firmware image, which may consist of
> source code from various parties and may also contain binaries from
> third parties.
>
> - a developer creates multiple firmware images (since the device has
> multiple microcontrollers that need to be updated).
>
> In this model the update service on a microcontroller gets code from a
> single source only (at least for the device it appears so since it does
> not know whether an included library was written by a different developer).

Yes, I agree in principle.

What we have seen (not only at the IOTSU workshop but also on existing
devices such as VoIP phones) is that firmware updates typically do not
come as a monolithic package but that in modules that can be updated
separately (the most common---and desirable---split is between the OS
and the basic bootloader). I think that at least this should be
addressed here.

> What I specifically want to exclude is a model like JavaScript where you
> can get code from multiple different sources dynamically during code
> execution.

I agree as well.

Grüße
Olaf