Protocol Standardization Efforts

SUMMARY - Given the increasing number of logistical networking software components, the REDDnet community is actively seeking to establish a series of standard protocols that would ensure the interoperability between these components and the services they need and/or the clients they serve. Although the Internet Backplane Protocol is already documented, it is also under revision by members of the REDDnet community, some of whom are the original authors.

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This diagram illustrates the different projects that need to inter-operate within the standards being developed here.

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• TSSP is the higher-level spec including use of protocols/standards IBP and exMSP
• REDDnet software is the set of implementations shown here

A minimum requirement is for the 3 main areas to interoperate

• (but not initially among projects within each area)
• ibp 1.4 compatibility
• exMSP currently means
  • LoRS reads a base-exnode-schema (LoRS schema)
  • Lstcp reads a base-schema (or just IBP calls) from the L-Server

The data-management systems L-Store and LoDN currently have no additional interoperability.

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The following is the list of protocols under deliberation/refinement:

• Transfer and Storage Services Protocol
  • TSSP Framework
  • TSSP Procedures
  • TSSP Messaging

• Resource Discovery Protocol (see Resource Discovery Standardization)
  • The Discovery Service
  • RDP Messages

• Exnode Management Services Protocol
  • Exnode specification
  • The Metadata Hosting Service
  • exMSP Messages
  • Directory and data management services APIs

• Internet Backplane Protocol
  • Version 1.4
  • 1.4 Revision
  • Development ideas

• Network Functional Unit (NFU)
  • LOCI NFU doc
  • NFU Specification