XEP-0347: Internet of Things - Discovery Peter Waher mailto:peterwaher@hotmail:com xmpp:peter:waher@jabber:org http://www:linkedin:com/in/peterwaher Ronny Klauck mailto:rklauck@informatik:tu-cottbus:de xmpp:TBD http://www-rnks:informatik:tu-cottbus:de/~rklauck 2018-11-03 Version 0.5.1 Status Type Short Name Deferred Standards Track iot-discovery This specification describes an architecture based on the XMPP protocol whereby Things can be in- stalled and safely discovered by their owners and connected into networks of Things. Legal Copyright This XMPP Extension Protocol is copyright © 1999 – 2020 by the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF). 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Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Glossary 2 3 Use Cases 5 3.1 Production ...................................... 5 3.2 Installation ...................................... 5 3.3 Finding XMPP Server ................................ 5 3.3.1 DHCP ..................................... 6 3.3.2 Multicast DNS (mDNS) and DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD) ....... 7 3.3.3 SSDP/UPnP ................................. 9 3.4 Connection to XMPP Server ............................. 10 3.5 Finding Thing Registry ............................... 10 3.6 Registering Thing .................................. 10 3.7 Register self-owned Thing .............................. 12 3.8 Register Thing behind Concentrator ........................ 12 3.9 Claiming Ownership of a Thing ........................... 13 3.10 Removing Thing from Registry ........................... 17 3.11 Finding Provisioning Server ............................. 19 3.12 Delegating Trust ................................... 19 3.13 Update Meta Information about Thing in Registry ................ 20 3.14 Owner updating Meta Information about Thing in Registry ........... 22 3.15 Search for Public Things in Registry ........................ 23 3.16 Unregistering Thing from Registry ......................... 27 3.17 Disowning Thing ................................... 28 4 Determining Support 30 5 Implementation Notes 32 5.1 JID vs Component Thing Registries ......................... 32 5.2 Meta Tags ....................................... 33 5.3 Friendships between Things and Registry ..................... 34 6 Security Considerations 34 6.1 Jabber Components Protocol ............................ 34 6.2 Hijacking predefined JIDs .............................. 35 6.3 Hijacking things in public areas ........................... 35 6.4 Key meta information in searches ......................... 35 6.5 KEY tag ........................................ 36 6.6 Tag name spam .................................... 36 6.7 External services for creating QR-codes ...................... 36 6.8 DHCP Security Considerations ........................... 36 6.9 DNS Security Considerations ............................ 36 6.10 UPnP Security Considerations ........................... 36 7 IANA Considerations 37 8 XMPP Registrar Considerations 37 9 XML Schema 37 10 For more information 41 11 Acknowledgements 41 1 INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction When installing massive amounts of Things into public networks care has to be taken to make installation simple, but at the same time secure so that the Things cannot be hijacked or hacked, making sure access to the Thing is controlled by the physical owner of the Thing. One of the main problems is how to match the characteristics of a Thing, like serial number, manufacturer, model, etc., with information automatically created by the Thing itself, like perhaps its JID, in an environment with massive amount of Things without rich user inter- faces. Care has also to be taken when specifying rules for access rights and user privileges. This document provides a network architecture based on the XMPP protocol that provides a means to safely install, configure, find and connect massive amounts of Things together, and at the same time minimizing the risk that Things get hijacked. It also provides information how each individual step in the process can be performed with as little manual intervention as possible, aiming where possible at zero-configuration networking. Furthermore, this document specifies how to create a registry that allows simple access to public Things without risking their integrity unnecessarily. Internet of Things contains many different architectures and use cases. For this reason, the IoT standards have been divided into multiple XEPs according to the following table: XEP Description xep-0000-IoT-BatteryPoweredSensors Defines how to handle the peculiars related to bat- tery powered devices, and other devices intermit- tently available on the network. xep-0000-IoT-Events Defines how Things send events, how event sub- scription, hysteresis levels, etc., are configured. xep-0000-IoT-Interoperability Defines guidelines for how to achieve interoper- ability in Internet of Things, publishing interoper- ability interfaces for different types of devices. xep-0000-IoT-Multicast Defines how sensor data can be multicast in effi- cient ways. xep-0000-IoT-PubSub Defines how efficient publication of sensor data can be made in Internet of Things. xep-0000-IoT-Chat Defines how human-to-machine interfaces should be constructed using chat messages to be user friendly, automatable and consistent with other IoT extensions and possible underlying architec- ture. XEP-0322 Defines how to EXI can be used in XMPP to achieve efficient compression of data. Albeit not an Inter- net of Things specific XEP, this XEP should be con- sidered in all Internet of Things implementations where memory and packet size is an issue. 1 2 GLOSSARY XEP Description XEP-0323 Provides the underlying architecture, basic oper- ations and data structures for sensor data com- munication over XMPP networks. It includes a hardware abstraction model, removing any tech- nical detail implemented in underlying technolo- gies. This XEP is used by all other Internet of Things XEPs. XEP-0324 Defines how provisioning, the management of ac- cess privileges, etc., can be efficiently and easily implemented. XEP-0325 Defines how to control actuators and other devices in Internet of Things. XEP-0326 Defines how to handle architectures contain- ing concentrators or servers handling multiple Things. XEP-0331 Defines extensions for how color pa- rameters can be handled, based on Data Forms (XEP-0004) XEP-0004: Data Forms <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0004.html>. XEP-0336 Defines extensions for how dynamic forms can be created, based on Data Forms (XEP-0004) XEP-0004: Data Forms <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep- 0004.html>., Data Forms Validation (XEP- 0122) XEP-0122: Data Forms Validation <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0122.html>., Publishing Stream Initiation Requests (XEP- 0137) XEP-0137: Publishing Stream Initiation Requests <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep- 0137.html>. and Data Forms Layout (XEP-0141) XEP-0141: Data Forms Layout <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0141.html>.. XEP-0347 This specification. Defines the peculiars of Thing discovery in Internet of Things. Apart from discov- ering Things by JID, it also defines how to discover Things based on location, etc. 2 Glossary The following table lists common terms