Desktop Agent Bridging

[Kris West]

Hi All,

The Desktop Agent Bridging meeting is today at 2pm BST / 9am EST. You can find the meeting agenda and joining details below and at: https://github.com/finos/FDC3/issues/782

Meeting Date

Wednesday 27July 2022 - 9am EST / 2pm BST

WebEx info

• Meeting link: https://finos.webex.com/finos/j.php?MTID=m55d4aa79e148c948bf53163690e74fee
• Meeting number: 2558 920 8729

Agenda

• Convene & roll call, review meeting notices (5mins)
• Review action items from previous meeting (5mins)
• Desktop Agent Bridging Discussion group 6th July 2022 #772
• Review updates to the proposal (40 mins)
• Current proposal [WIP] 544 desktop agent bridging proposal #634
• Preview: https://github.com/finos/FDC3/blob/544-Desktop-Agent-Bridging-Proposal/docs/api-bridging/spec.md
• Please note both will be updated today before the meeting
• Changes
• Connection protocol updated
• Added initial connection step to connection protocol diagram
• Renumbered connection protocol steps to better map to diagram
• Improvements to connection protocol steps titles
• Added optional auth token to hello message from bridge to DA (allows 2-way authentication)
• Added description of atomicity requirements for handling of handshake and connectedAgentsUpdate messages by both DAB and DAs
• Channel State Synchronization
• Added details necessary to avoid race conditions (e.g. if a DA is connecting and another is broadcasting context concurrently)
• Recommended port range for bridge - (4470 - 4480)
• Interaction/Messaging protocolAdded WIP draft
• Added section on GUID generation (with reference to external standard) used in requestGuid and responseGuid fields in messages.
• Added missing field comments for message formats
• Handling of slow responding DAs?
• Recommended timeout of 1500ms/3000ms
• Open questions / TODO listAdd details of how to handle:workflows broken by disconnection
• An agent that is repeatedly timing out should be disconnected?
• Advise on whether other agents report to users on connect/disconnect events?
• Add new terms and acronyms to FDC3 glossary and ensure they are defined in this spec's introduction
• Add RFC 4122 - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4122 to FDC3 references page
• Discuss next steps (5mins)
• AOB & Adjourn (5mins)
  
  

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Kris West

Principal Engineer

+1 (800) 821-8147 kr...@cosaic.io