Item 08 in the ANIMA agenda for IETF 115.
draft-eckert-anima-grasp-dnssd presents standards for the data
structures (GRASP objectives) that will be required to effect
autoconfiguration of basic services such as syslog, NTP, and DNS, using
GRASP.
draft-eckert-anima-services-dns-autoconfig presents standards for
actually providing these services, using the objectives defined in
draft-eckert-anima-grasp-dnssd.
A strong argument is given in section 1 of
draft-eckert-anima-grasp-dnssd, showing that the reliability and
security of GRASP, and the advantages of using native CBOR encoding and
GRASP flooding, justify the effort to define a GRASP-specific approach,
rather than just using GRASP to carry the packets of the needed services.
Clearly these services are essential to any running distributed system,
and standardizing their on-the-wire representation will likely reduce
potential problems with incompatible software in the future.
I therefore encourage the WG to adopt these two drafts as Working Group
documents.
Bill Atwood
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Dr. J.W. Atwood, Eng. tel: +1 (514) 848-2424 x3046
Distinguished Professor Emeritus fax: +1 (514) 848-2830
Department of Computer Science
and Software Engineering
Concordia University ER 1234 email:[email protected]
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