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Current Version: 1.4
About this version:
This specification includes:
- Architectural overview
- Discovery mechanisms for Controllers and Agents
- Basic CRUD messages between Controllers and Agents
- Use of USP Record encapsulation for end to end integrity, security, and privacy
- Data model Objects specific to protocol functionality, object defined operations, and notifications/events
- Protocol buffers encoding schema
- Use of WebSockets, MQTT, STOMP, and UNIX Domain Sockets as message transfer protocols (MTP)
- A system for authentication and authorization
- Extensions for bulk data collection, firmware management, software module management, containerized microservices, and device proxying
- Theory of operations for using a USP Agent to control IoT devices and systems
USP is developed by the Broadband Forum. For more information, visit https://www.broadband-forum.org