[OASIS Issue Tracker] (MQTT-271) Describing small device limitations, aka "the Arduino problem"

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Ken Borgendale commented on MQTT-271:
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The problem we have found with very small devices is that they require a maximum size of the IP packet which they receive, a maximum size of the TLS record, and a maximum size of the MQTT request packet.  Some also want to guarantee that the IP, TLS, and MQTT packets are always aligned on a 1 to 1 basis.  We also had a requirement to limit the flow rate of QoS=0 messages to a device.

Some of these make sense to specify within MQTT, but much of this is controlled at other levels in the network stack.

So if MQTT defines a set of constraints, can the actual requirements of a highly constrained client be fully specified within MQTT?  Do we derive that if the client asks for a 512 byte max payload they want 1 to 1 MQTT to IP packets?

Would it make more sense to pass something like a piece of metadata on the connect to indicate a client constraint which could then be configured on the server?  This seems like a case of CONNECT metadata, but you could argue the same for userid and password.

> Describing small device limitations, aka "the Arduino problem"
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MQTT-271
>                 URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/MQTT-271
>             Project: OASIS Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: futures
>    Affects Versions: 3.1.1
>         Environment: Very small device implementations.
>            Reporter: Ian Craggs
>
> Small devices, like the original Arduino, may have very limited resource, like 16k of RAM, or less.  For such devices, limiting the storage used by MQTT is very important.  
> They may not even be able to process a message of 30k, for instance, at all.  If it were sent at QoS 1 or 2, it has to be read in before subsequent messages are received.  
> At the moment, it is a server admin task, or application design task, to make sure that messages bigger than a device can handle are not sent to it.



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