[icnrg] FLIC and error reporting

Cenk Gündoğan <mail+ietf@gundogan.net> Tue, 04 August 2020 06:59 UTC

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Subject: [icnrg] FLIC and error reporting
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Hello,

following yesterday's discussions and rereading the notes [1] and the
-02 draft version, I noticed that there are no references to error
reporting.

Certain operations (like traversing or seeking the tree) may yield
errors (pointer out-of-range [2] -EINVAL, denied access based on an ACL
-EPERM, locked data structure, e.g., during re-publishing or
deduplication -EAGAIN, ...). How does an error that concerns operations
on a manifest tree propagate back to the source?

One way would be to leverage the existing mechanism, which is

1) for CCNx: InterestReturn (with an 8-bit return code),
2) for NDN: AFAIK NDNLP provides the Interest NACK feature [3]

Another way would be to come up with an orthogonal error reporting
feature for manifests only, e.g., by using another PayloadType. The
advantage would be a more fine-grained control over error codes and
corrective actions. The disadvantage .. well, it can get more complex.

FWIW, error handling (in either way) and how it is mapped to CCNx/NDN
could probably be mentioned in the FLIC base draft.

Just my 2 cents ..

On a separate note, I wanted to thank the chairs and the FLIC experts
for yesterday's interim. I liked the format of having a focused and
technical discussion round.

Cheers,
Cenk

[1] https://codimd.ietf.org/icnrg-interim-2020-08-03
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-icnrg-flic-02#section-4.2
[3] https://redmine.named-data.net/projects/nfd/wiki/NDNLPv2#Network-NACK

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Cenk Gündoğan

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