This is of course need to be investigated. For a start I think of having
the MQTT broker handle all OCF security as currently implemented in
iotivity code. For MQTT part, I am not an expert, so I can start assuming
the client just publish without constraints.

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:52 PM, Mats Wichmann <m...@wichmann.us> wrote:

> On 08/20/2018 05:28 AM, Khaled Elsayed wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone developed a MQTT gateway that would host a MQTT broker
> receiving
> > the MQTT publish requests and creates OCF resources corresponding to the
> > MQTT topics and handles the update of the resources data. It should not
> be
> > that difficult so I am asking it is already there to avoid doing it
> again.
> >
> > If it does not exist, would it be interesting for the IoTivity community
> to
> > have OCF/iotivity and MQTT inter-operability?
>
> There is a desire for pub/sub functionality in OCF, last I knew. At the
> very least for a backchannel comms method so a device can send an
> unsolicted message - like for an emergency.
>
> It seems like it might be a little tricky to craft with the security
> model, however. I'm thinking of how to do access control when there are
> three parties to a conversation, and the producer and consumer don't
> necessarily know each other. The broker might have to handle this so
> there's a negotiation before someone can subscribe to a particular
> server's messages.
>
>

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