On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Kis, Zoltan <zoltan.kis at intel.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It seems the OCF Core spec 1.1 does not deal with presence any more: the "
> oic.wk.ad" resource type and the "/oic/ad" resource are not specified any
> more - or then it's just me who doesn't find them.
>

I couldn't find them either.

>
> iotivity still seems to support "enablePresence()" and "disablePresence()"
> that are based on the "/oic/ad" resource. That sounds obsolete now.
>
> I wonder what are the current mechanisms in OCF that support the following
> use cases:
> - when a server deletes/unregisters a resource, observers of that resource
> SHOULD get delete notifications
> - [sub-case] when a client deletes a remote resource, observers of that
> resource SHOULD get delete notifications
> - when a server device goes down, observers for that should get
> notification instead of trying to fetch resources of that device in vain.
>
> Without these, client applications need to do periodic discovery and
> maintain their own lists of resources and devices. This is catastrophic for
> network and battery efficiency when we scale it up to the projected number
> of IoT devices.
>
> A resource/device directory should be able to encapsulate this - is a
> resource directory guaranteed to be in the OCF network nowadays?
>
> I wonder what are the recommended client work flows the current OCF Core
> spec is supporting. Right now it seems that a client first needs to look
> for a resource directory; if there is one, use it. Otherwise set up
> periodic discovery and maintain own resource/device list.
>
> Thanks,
> Zoltan
>
>
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