[icnrg] Do we need an ICMP for ICN?

"Thomas C. Schmidt" <t.schmidt@haw-hamburg.de> Wed, 19 July 2017 14:44 UTC

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Subject: [icnrg] Do we need an ICMP for ICN?
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Hi,

we want to continue the lively discussion of today's meeting on "how to 
do control messaging" in ICN.

We made the case for a new message kind in ICN that

  * is unidirectional + stateless
  * carries simple control state (e.g., names)
  * is strictly link-local
  * follows FIB (or broadcast)

So it's something like a restricted, tiny ICMP (or IGMP/MLD).

Key arguments for this are

  * most appropriate for transporting control information
  * does not twist/overload Interest semantics (or even syntax)
  * clearly (and cleanly) treatable in the stack
  * preserves the CCN/NDN request-response logic on the network
  * does not introduce push-based threats (except for link jamming, 
which Interests could also do)


Key counterarguments are now requested from the group ;)

Best,
  Thomas

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Prof. Dr. Thomas C. Schmidt
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