Invitation to comment on MQTT V5.0 – ends Sept. 8th
We are pleased to announce that MQTT Version 5.0 is now available for public review and comment.
MQTT is a Client Server publish/subscribe messaging transport protocol. It is light weight, open, simple, and designed to be easy to implement. These characteristics make it ideal for use in many situations, including constrained environments such as for communication in Machine to Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) contexts where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is at a premium.
The protocol runs over TCP/IP, or over other network protocols that provide ordered, lossless, bi-directional connections. Its features include:
– Use of the publish/subscribe message pattern which provides one-to-many message distribution and decoupling of applications.
– A messaging transport that is agnostic to the content of the payload.
– Three qualities of service for message delivery:
– “At most once”, where messages are delivered according to the best efforts of the operating environment. Message loss can occur. This level could be used, for example, with ambient sensor data where it does not matter if an individual reading is lost as the next one will be published soon after.
– “At least once”, where messages are assured to arrive but duplicates can occur.
– “Exactly once”, where messages are assured to arrive exactly once. This level could be used, for example, with billing systems where duplicate or lost messages could lead to incorrect charges being applied.
– A small transport overhead and protocol exchanges minimized to reduce network traffic.
– A mechanism to notify interested parties when an abnormal disconnection occurs.
Please note that at the time of publishing this Committee Specification Draft, the MQTT TC was evaluating two issues (https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/MQTT-464 and https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/MQTT-466) to add an additional reason code to PUBACK and PUBREC respectively. These issues have been marked as ‘deferred’ for the duration of this public review period.”
The documents and related files are available here:
MQTT Version 5.0
Committee Specification Draft 01 /Public Review Draft 01
13 July 2017
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http://docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/mqtt/v5.0/csprd01/mqtt-v5.0-csprd01.docx
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http://docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/mqtt/v5.0/csprd01/mqtt-v5.0-csprd01.zip
Public Review Period:
OASIS and the MQTT TC value your feedback. We solicit input from developers, users and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.
The public review starts 10 August 2017 at 00:00 UTC and ends 08 September 2017 at 23:59 UTC.
Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be used by following the instructions on the TC’s “Send A Comment” page (https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=mqtt).
Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/mqtt-comment/
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https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/mqtt/
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