RFC 8240 · INFORMATIONAL · 2017

Report from the Internet of Things Software Update Workshop 2016

Overview

RFC 8240, “Report from the Internet of Things Software Update Workshop 2016”, is an Informational document published in September 2017 by H. Tschofenig, S. Farrell. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document provides a summary of the Internet of Things Software Update (IoTSU) Workshop that took place at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland on the 13th and 14th of June, 2016. The main goal of the workshop was to foster a discussion on requirements, challenges, and solutions for bringing software and firmware updates to IoT devices. This report summarizes the discussions and lists recommendations to the standards community.

Note that this document is a report on the proceedings of the workshop. The views and positions documented in this report are those of the workshop participants and do not necessarily reflect IAB views and positions.

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