On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 11:27:25 PDT Scott King wrote:
> There seems to be a lot of conflicting information about this:
> 
> The easy-setup wiki page shows a constrained device registering with an
> iotivity cloud without any other devices running iotivity besides the
> mediator The example easy-setup app shows a coap+tcp ip address being sent
> to the constrained device
> 
> None of the documentation on end points that I have read state that you are
> limited to your local network

Correct.

> There are no TLS libraries in the iotivity-constrained repo

That comes from your OS. Main IoTivity no longer contains TLS code either.

> Thiago Macieira said in a previous post that "I advise against making a
> constrained device talk directly to the Internet and the cloud."

Opinion still valid.

> Can anyone confirm one way or another whether a constrained device can talk
> to the cloud? If it can't, is this a feature that may be included at some
> point in the future?

It can, but it shouldn't. You should only talk to the local network. Leave 
cloud connectivity to the bigger devices, which have more an in-depth security 
protocol and hardening.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center

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