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[Fud] Constrained Firmware update challenge

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Sun, 16 April 2017 20:34 UTC

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Subject: [Fud] Constrained Firmware update challenge
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In the BarBOF I tried to explain my belief that there is a place for in-place
(not double/triple buffered) firmware update, via some kind of setup-process
followed by a very constrained CoAP/DTLS/OSCOAP Block Transfer mechanism that
a recovery bootloader could run.  I imagine pretty much *all* the protocol
mechanism being cached.. (ND, IPv6 addresses, DTLS setup, etc.)

So I wrote up my challenge, and my straw-man concept of a solution.

Please disagree with me... preferably by sending text (or pull requests):
     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-richardson-fud-constrained-update/
     https://github.com/mcr/fud-constrained-update

Ignore my strawman, or perhaps, provide your own.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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