DTN Research Group                                B. Gernert, S. Schildt
INTERNET-DRAFT                                      IBR, TU Braunschweig
Intended Status: Experimental                                           
Expires: September 12, 2013                               March 11, 2013

       Delay Tolerant Networking Email Convergence Layer Protocol
                   draft-gernert-dtnrg-mailcl-00.txt



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Abstract

   This document describes the protocol for the Email-based Convergence
   (MCL) Layer for Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN).


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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     1.1. Conventions Used in this Document . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Definitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   3. Overview of the Protocol  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     3.1 Example Communication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   4. Email Format  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     4.1 MCL mail headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     4.1 Encoding of the Primary Bundle Block . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     4.2 Encoding the Bundle Payload Block  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
       4.2.1 The Payload Block  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     4.3 Encoding Extension Blocks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     4.4 Encoding a Status Report Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     4.5 Encoding a Custody Signal Block  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   5. Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   9.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16




























 


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1.  Introduction

   This document describes the Mail-based convergence layer protocol for
   Delay Tolerant Networking (MCL).  MCL is based on SMTP and IMAP. 
   Delay Tolerant Networking is an end-to-end architecture providing
   communications in and/or through highly stressed environments,
   including those with intermittent connectivity, long and/or variable
   delays, and high bit error rates.  More detailed descriptions of the
   rationale and capabilities of these networks can be found in the
   Delay-Tolerant Network Architecture RFC [RFC4838].

   An important goal of the DTN architecture is to accommodate a wide
   range of networking technologies and environments.  The protocol used
   for DTN communications is the Bundling Protocol (BP) [RFC5050], an
   application-layer protocol that is used to construct a store-and-
   forward overlay network.  As described in the bundle protocol
   specification, it requires the services of a "convergence layer
   adapter" (CLA) to send and receive bundles using the service of some
   "native" link, network, or Internet protocol.

   This document describes one such convergence layer adapter that uses
   SMTP and IMAP to transmit Bundles between BP nodes.  With the MCL a
   BP node can have a mailbox, allowing for asynchronous DTN
   communication across the Internet when communication partners are not
   online at the same time.  This allows leveraging legacy Internet
   services, without the need to deploy a native BP router in the
   Internet.

   The locations of the MCL and the BP in the Internet model protocol
   stack are shown in Figure 1.

1.1. Conventions Used in this Document

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119. [RFC2119]












 


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         +-------------------------+
         |     DTN Application     | -\
         +-------------------------|   |
         |  Bundle Protocol (BP)   |   |
         +-------------------------+   |->  Application Layer
         | Email Conv. Layer (MCL) |   |
         +-------------------------+   |
         |      SMTP / IMAP        | -/
         +-------------------------+
         |          TCP            | ---> Transport Layer
         +-------------------------+
         |           IP            | ---> Network Layer
         +-------------------------+
         |   Link-Layer Protocol   | ---> Link Layer
         +-------------------------+
         |    Physical Medium      | ---> Physical Layer
         +-------------------------+

        Figure 1: The location of the BP and the MCL
                in the Internet protocol stack




2.  Definitions

   The following set of definitions are abbreviated versions of those
   which appear in the Bundle Protocol Specification [RFC5050].  To the
   extent in which terms appear in both documents, they are intended to
   have the same meaning.

   Bundle
      A bundle is a protocol data unit of the DTN bundle protocol.

   Bundle payload
      A bundle payload (or simply "payload") is the application data
      whose conveyance to the bundle's destination is the purpose for
      the transmission of a given bundle.

   Bundle node
      A bundle node (or simply a "node") is any entity that can send
      and/or receive bundles.  The particular instantiation of this
      entity is deliberately unconstrained, allowing for implementations
      in software libraries, long-running processes, or even hardware. 
      One component of the bundle node is the implementation of a
      convergence layer adapter.

   Bundle endpoint and EID
 


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      A bundle endpoint (or simply "endpoint") is a set of zero or more
      bundle nodes that all identify themselves for BP purposes by some
      single text string, called a "bundle endpoint ID" (EID).  The
      special case of an endpoint that never contains more than one node
      is termed a "singleton" endpoint; every bundle node must be a
      member of at least one singleton endpoint.

   Extension Blocks
      "Extension blocks" are all blocks other than the primary and
      payload blocks.


3. Overview of the Protocol

   This specification provides a means to exchange bundles through an
   E-mail server.  It specifies how to encode Bundles within a mail.

   To be able to use the MCL a node needs its own email address and
   access to a mail server.  A node will download received bundles from
   the mail server and use it to send bundles to other nodes supporting
   the MCL. 

   How to find the correct mail address for a BP EID is out of scope of
   this specification. The mail address for an EID may be configured
   statically, retrieved using existing discovery mechanism such as IPND
   or BT-DHT or for MCL-only nodes a new EID scheme encoding the mail
   address into the EID can be devised.

   A bundle that has been successfully transmitted to a mail server will
   be considered delivered by the sending node.  To ensure end-to-end
   acknowledgement of reception BP Bundle Status Reports can be used as
   normal.

3.1 Example Communication

   Figure 2 shows the communication between two nodes using the MCL.
   Once node A's BP implementation comes into possession of a bundle
   destined for node B it will search for suitable forwarding
   opportunities.  If node A gets to know B's MCL email address it will
   encode the bundle into a mail and submit it to its SMTP server.

   No the standard Internet mail system and protocols take over, finally
   delivering the bundle to the inbox of node B's MCL email address.
   Once B's MCL compliant BP implementation notices a new mail in its
   MCL email address' inbox, it will retrieve the mail and decode the
   contained bundle and deliver it to an application or forward it
   further according to the BP [RFC5050].

 


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         Node A               SMTP/IMAP servers           Node B
         ======               =================           ======

   +-----------------+
   | Receives bundle |
   | destined for B  |
   +-----------------+
            ||
            \/
   +-----------------+
   | Retrieve email  |
   |  address of B   |
   +-----------------+
            ||
            \/
   +-----------------+
   |  Encode bundle  |
   |    in email     |
   +-----------------+
            ||
            \/
   +-----------------+    +--------------------+
   |  Send mail via  | -> | Accept email       |
   |      SMTP       | -> | send to mailserver |
   +-----------------+    | responsible for B  |
                          +--------------------+
                                    ||
                                    \/
                          +--------------------+    +-----------------+
                          |  Store email in    | <- | Check for new   |
                          |  INBOX of Node B   | -> | mails via IMAP  |
                          +--------------------+    +-----------------+
                                                            ||
                                                            \/
                          +--------------------+    +-----------------+
                          |  INBOX of Node B   | -> | Receive mails   |
                          |                    | -> |    via IMAP     |
                          +--------------------+    +-----------------+
                                                            ||
                                                            \/
                                                    +-----------------+
                                                    |  Decode Bundle  |
                                                    |    from email   |
                                                    +-----------------+


           Figure 2: Communication between two nodes using MCL

 


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4. Email Format

   This section describes how to encode a bundle into a mail messages
   compliant with [RFC5322].

   A mail consists of two parts: The header and the body.  Additional
   data can be attached to a mail encoded as MIME parts ([RFC2045],
   [RFC2046], [RFC2047], [RFC2048], [RFC2049]).

   A BP Bundle consists of the Primary Bundle Block, a Bundle Payload
   Block and an arbitrary number of Extension Blocks and administrative
   blocks (Bundle Status Reports, Custody Signals).  The MCL encodes
   fields from the Primary Bundle Block in the mail headers.  This
   allows a MCL implementation to decide whether to accept a bundle by
   only fetching the headers from the IMAP server without the need to
   download the whole bundle.  The header fields form the Bundle Payload
   Block will also be written to the [RFC5322] mail header.

   The mail header also contains references to the payload data as well
   as to all Extension Blocks and Administrative blocks.  These blocks
   will be attached as MIME Parts.  There must be one MIME part of the
   type application/octet-stream for each block.

   The mails subjects field and the message body should contain some
   text explaining that this mail contains a bundle.  Information about
   the bundle may be given in human-readable form.

   Unless otherwise noted all fields have the same meaning content as
   described in [RFC5050]. Regardless of type, all fields are encoded as
   strings in the mail header.  For INTs and SDNVs a decimal
   representation is used. Thus
   The STRING "somestring" is encoded as "somestring"
   The SDNV   with the bit pattern 10000001 00001111 is encoded as "143"
   The INT    with the bit pattern 10000001 00001111 is encoded as
   "33039"


4.1 MCL mail headers

   Table 1 shows the additional MCL headers that are not derived from
   [RFC5050].







 


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   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Header-Field                               | Type   | Optional |
   +============================================+========+==========+
   | Bundle-EMailCL-Version                     |  INT   |          |
   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Bundle-Additional-Block-Count              |  INT   |    x     |
   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Bundle-Additional-Block-1                  | STRING |    x     |
   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Bundle-Additional-Block-...                | STRING |    x     |
   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Bundle-Additional-Block-n                  | STRING |    x     |
   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+

                    Table 1: MCL specific header fields 


   Bundle-EMailCL-Version:  
      Version of the MCL specification.  A "1" denotes the version of
      the MCL described in this document.  Other values are reserved for
      further use.

   Bundle-Additional-Block-Count:
      If a bundle contains any blocks besides the Primary Bundle Block
      or the Payload Block, such as extension blocks or administrative
      blocks, the total number of blocks is given by the Bundle-
      Additional-Block-Count header.  If this header is missing, it
      implies that the bundle has no additional blocks except the
      Primary Bundle Block.

   Bundle-Additional-Block-n:
      If Bundle-Additional-Block-Count is not zero, the headers Bundle-
      Additional-Block-1 up to Bundle-Additional-Block-n where n=Bundle-
      Additional-Block-Count must exist in the header.  The value for a
      Bundle-Additional-Block header is the name of the MIME Part
      containing the data for that block.


4.1 Encoding of the Primary Bundle Block

   Table 2 shows the header fields of the Primary Bundle Block that will
   be put into the mail header.  Except the fields marked as optional,
   all fields are required in a valid MCL mail.





 


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   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Header-Field                               | Type   | Optional |
   +============================================+========+==========+
   | Bundle-Flags                               |  INT   |          |
   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Bundle-Destination                         |  EID   |          |
   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Bundle-Source                              |  EID   |          |
   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Bundle-Report-To                           |  EID   |          |
   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Bundle-Custodian                           |  EID   |          |
   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Bundle-Creation-Time                       |  SDNV  |          |
   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Bundle-Sequence-Number                     |  SDNV  |          |
   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Bundle-Lifetime                            |  INT   |          |
   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Bundle-Fragment-Offset                     |  SDNV  |    x     |
   +--------------------------------------------+--------+----------+

       Table 2: MCL header fields from the Primary Bundle Block



   Bundle-Flags: 
      Processing flags for the Primary Bundle Block.  This is a SDNV in
      [RFC5050], which is limited to 19 bits.  The MCL encodes a INT
      representation of this value



4.2 Encoding the Bundle Payload Block

   Encoding the Bundle Payload Block is similar to encoding the Primary
   Bundle Block.  Table 3 list the header fields related to the Bundle
   Payload Block.  The actual payload data will be attached as MIME
   part.

4.2.1 The Payload Block







 


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   +---------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Header-Fields                         | Value  | Optional |
   +=======================================+========+==========+
   | Bundle-Payload-Flags                  |  INT   |          |
   +---------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Bundle-Payload-Block-Length           |  SDNV  |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+--------+----------+
   | Bundle-Payload-Data-Name              | STRING |          |
   +---------------------------------------+--------+----------+

          Table 3: Header fields from the Payload Block



   Bundle-Flags: 
      Processing flags for the Payload Block.  This is a SDNV in
      [RFC5050], which is limited to 19 bits in [RFC5050].  The MCL
      encodes a INT representation of this value.

   Bundle-Payload-Block-Length:
      Length of the payload data in bytes.


   Bundle-Payload-Data-Name: 
      Name of the MIME part which contains the payload data.  Similar to
      Bundle-Additional-Block-n fields.




4.3 Encoding Extension Blocks

   Other Bundle Blocks (Extension Blocks, Status Reports, Custody
   Signals) must be attached as MIME parts.  The headers for Extension
   Blocks are listed in table 4.  These headers must be encoded in the
   headers of the MIME part and not in the general mail header.

   Every extension block MUST be referenced in the mail header using the
   Bundle-Additional-Block-n and Bundle-Additional-Block-count fields.









 


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   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Header-Fields                         |  Value  | Optional |
   +=======================================+=========+==========+
   | Block-Type                            | STRING  |          |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Block-Processing-Flags                |   INT   |          |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Block-EID-Count                       |   INT   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Block-EID-1                           |   EID   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Block-EID-...                         |   EID   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Block-EID-n                           |   EID   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+

       Table 4: MIME-part header fields for Extension Blocks



   Block-Type: 
      Bundle Block type code as specified in [RFC5050].


   Block-Processing-Flags: 
      Processing flags for the Payload Block.  This is a SDNV in
      [RFC5050], which is limited to 19 bits.  The MCL encodes a INT
      representation of this value.


   Block-EID-Count: 
      The number of Block-EID-n fields.  If this header is missing, it
      implies that there are no Block-EID-n fields.

   Block-EID-n: 
      If the Block-EID-Count is not zero, the headers Block-EID-1 up to
      Block-EID-n where n=Block-EID-Count must exist in the header.  If
      the block references EID from the Primary Bundle Block Dictionary,
      the EIDs will be directly encoded to Block-EID fields.



4.4 Encoding a Status Report Block

   The encoding of a Status Report Block is similar to the general
   encoding of Extension Blocks with some additional fields shown in
   table 5.

 


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   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Header-Fields                         |  Value  | Optional |
   +=======================================+=========+==========+
   | Block-Type                            | STRING  |          |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Block-Processing-Flags                |   INT   |          |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Block-EID-Count                       |   INT   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Block-EID-1                           |   EID   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Block-EID-...                         |   EID   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Block-EID-n                           |   EID   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Status-Flags                          |   INT   |          |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Status-Reason-Code                    |   INT   |          |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Status-Fragment-Offset                |  SDNV   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Status-Fragment-Length                |  SDNV   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Status-Receipt-Time                   | DTNTIME |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Status-Acceptance-Time                | DTNTIME |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Status-Forwarding-Time                | DTNTIME |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Status-Delivery-Time                  | DTNTIME |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Status-Deletion-Time                  | DTNTIME |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Status-Creation-Time                  | DTNTIME |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Status-Sequence-Number-Time           | DTNTIME |          |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Status-Source-EID                     |   EID   |          |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
      Table 5: MIME-part header fields for Status Report Blocks


4.5 Encoding a Custody Signal Block

   The encoding of a Custody Signal Block is similar to the general
   encoding of Extension Blocks with some additional fields shown in
   table 6.

 


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   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Header-Fields                         |  Value  | Optional |
   +=======================================+=========+==========+
   | Block-Type                            | STRING  |          |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Block-Processing-Flags                |   INT   |          |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Block-EID-Count                       |   INT   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Block-EID-1                           |   EID   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Block-EID-...                         |   EID   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Block-EID-n                           |   EID   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Custody-Reason-Code                   |  SDNV   |          |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Custody-Fragment-Offset               |  SDNV   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Custody-Fragment-Length               |  SDNV   |     x    |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Custody-Signal-Time                   | DTNTIME |          |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Custody-Creation-Time                 | DTNTIME |          |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Custody-Creation-Sequence-Number      |  SDNV   |          |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
   | Custody-Source-EID                    |   EID   |          |
   +---------------------------------------+---------+----------+
      Table 6: MIME-part header fields for Custody Signal Blocks


5. Example

   The following example shows a correctly encoded mail with just a
   payload block.  This bundle comes from "dtn://second/eid" with the
   mail address "sender@server" and was delivered to "dtn://some/eid"
   with the mail address "recv@server".  The payload can be found in the
   attachment named "payload.data".









 


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   Return-path: <sender@server>
   Envelope-to: recv@server
   Delivery-date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:44:25 +0100
   From: sender@server
   To: recv@server
   Subject: Bundle for dtn://some/eid
   Bundle-EMailCL-Version: 1
   Bundle-Flags: 144
   Bundle-Destination: dtn://some/eid
   Bundle-Source: dtn://second/eid
   Bundle-Report-To: dtn:none
   Bundle-Custodian: dtn:none
   Bundle-Creation-Time: 412281870
   Bundle-Sequence-Number: 1
   Bundle-Lifetime: 3600
   Bundle-Fragment-Offset: 0
   Bundle-Total-Application-Data-Unit-Length: 0
   Bundle-Payload-Flags: 8
   Bundle-Payload-Block-Length: 35
   Bundle-Payload-Data-Name: payload.data
   Content-Type: multipart/mixed; 
    boundary="=_f-20r0xUuORzjAo2CVz1bGFWJK1irHf4t+jNIoYURaTVkAY6"
   Bundle-Additional-Block-Count: 0

   This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Your mail reader does
   not understand MIME message format.
   --=_f-20r0xUuORzjAo2CVz1bGFWJK1irHf4t+jNIoYURaTVkAY6


   --=_f-20r0xUuORzjAo2CVz1bGFWJK1irHf4t+jNIoYURaTVkAY6
   Content-Type: application/octet-stream
   Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
   Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=payload.data

   VGVzdA==
   --=_f-20r0xUuORzjAo2CVz1bGFWJK1irHf4t+jNIoYURaTVkAY6--

7. IANA Considerations

   This document has no actions for IANA at the moment.

8. Security Considerations

   To secure the transmission to and from an emailserver you can use
   SMTP and IMAP over TLS [RFC3207] and [RFC2595].  However it is still
   possible that an outstanding person sends manipulated mails to an
   inbox of one node.  Therefore additional tasks to secure the inbox of
   a node may be required.
 


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9.  References

   [RFC2045]  Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
   Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies",
   RFC 2045, November 1996.

   [RFC2046]  Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
   Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types", RFC 2046, November 1996.

   [RFC2047]  Moore, K., "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
   Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text", RFC 2047,
   November 1996.

   [RFC2048]  Freed, N., Klensin, J., and J. Postel, "Multipurpose
   Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures",
   RFC 2048, November 1996.

   [RFC2049]  Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
   Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples",
   RFC 2049, November 1996.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
   Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC2595]  Newman, C., "Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP",
   RFC 2595, June 1999.

   [RFC3207]  Hoffman, P., "SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over
   Transport Layer Security", RFC 3207, February 2002.

   [RFC4838]  Cerf, V., Burleigh, S., Hooke, A., Torgerson, L., Durst,
   R., Scott, K., Fall, K., and H. Weiss, "Delay-Tolerant Networking
   Architecture", RFC 4838, April 2007.

   [RFC5050]  Scott, K. and S. Burleigh, "Bundle Protocol
   Specification", RFC 5050, November 2007.

   [RFC5322]  Resnick, P., Ed., "Internet Message Format", RFC 5322,
   October 2008.









 


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Authors' Addresses

   Bjoern Gernert
   Technische Uninversitaet Braunschweig
   Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks
   Muhlenpfordtstr. 23
   38106 Braunschweig
   Germany

   Email: mail@bjoern-gernert.de


   Sebastian Schildt
   Technische Uninversitaet Braunschweig
   Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks
   Muhlenpfordtstr. 23
   38106 Braunschweig
   Germany

   Phone +49 531 391 3285
   Email: schildt@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de






























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