Subject: [dtn] AMP comment on control scheduling

From: Brian Sipos <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 17:29:26 +0000

This is a comment against "draft-birrane-dtn-amp-02".

Currently, it is possible to send an AMP message which schedules a control execution "in the future", but there is no mechanism to either view the to-be-executed controls or to revoke a to-be-executed control. Using a TRL with a specific "Start" time and a "Count" of 1 it is possible to have this kind of fine control over controls to-be-executed.

Is there any point/benefit to including a "Start [TS]" value within the "Perform Control" message, given that it does not allow the same level of fidelity as the AMP Agent ADM interface?

Given otherwise equal alternatives, my preference would be to move functionality into the agent rather than the protocol.