Re: L7 protocol design

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Wed, 04 January 2017 19:08 UTC

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On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 4:57 AM, Philippe Duke <philippe46@netassist.ua>
wrote:

> Hello, dear IETF community. I would like to develop L7 protocol for my
> application and public documentation about it. Good protocol development
> is quite difficult stage, but not a problem. But at the same time, I
> don't have any experience writing protocol documentations (RFC's).
>
> What guidelines do you have?
>
> Is the RFC 4253 (SSH) good example of document design? Should I follow
> same principle?
>
>
> Please give me some examples how to make it correct. Even examples of
> very simple protocols.
>
> What I need as requirements:
>
>     TCP/UDP transport
>
>     Authentication
>
>     Encryption
>
>     Sequence control
>
> My protocol would carry small status messages like (10-20 bytes with
> timestamps and some sort of sequence synchronization).
>
>
> Thank you very much for your answers. Sorry for posting into the general
> list.
>
> --
> Philippe Duke
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