NLSR

NLSR Management

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NLSR Management provides:

- command to add(advertise) routes to name prefix list

- command to remove(withdraw) routes from name prefix list

## 1. Control Commands

### 1.1 Add a name prefix

#### command-verb: advertise

This command adds a name prefix to the name prefix list. This command can be accepted on ```ndn:/localhost/nlsr/prefix-update``` prefix.

#### Control Parameters

- Name (required)

### 1.2 Remove a name prefix

#### command-verb: withdraw

This command removes a name prefix from the name prefix list. This command can be accepted on ```ndn:/localhost/nlsr/prefix-update``` prefix.

#### Control Parameters

- Name (required)

## 2. Request format

NLSR control commands are command interests (https://redmine.named-data.net/projects/ndn-cxx/wiki/CommandInterest), whose name has the following form: 

      /<prefix>/<management-module>/<command-verb>/<control-parameters>/<timestamp>/<random-value>/<SignatureInfo>/<SignatureValue>

- ```<prefix>``` is ```/localhost/nlsr ```. Each individual command may specify additional prefixes under which that command could be accepted.

- ```<management-module> ```is the name of management module to which the command needs to be dispatched. For example, the name of the management module in this case would be ```prefix-update```.

- ```<command-verb>``` is the command to be executed. For this case this would be either ```withdraw``` or ```advertise```.

- ```<control-parameters>``` is a ControlParameters TLV block wrapped in a NameComponent.

- ```<timestamp>``` is interest's timestamp that  is used to prevent replay attack.

- ```<random-value>``` aka Nonce that ensures the uniqueness of an interest.

- ```<SignatureInfo>``` and ```<SignatureValue>``` are additional components defined by [ndn-cxx:SignedInterest|Signed Interest] spec.

So, putting everything together, the complete name of a command interest would be ```localhost/nlsr/prefix-update/advertise``` or ```localhost/nlsr/prefix-update/withdraw```

## 3. Response Format

A response from the command interface is a Data that matches the request Interest. The payload of this Data is a ControlResponse block.

### StatusCode

StatusCode loosely follows the HTTP semantics described in RFC2616 section 10 ([RFC2616](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt))

StatusCode  |	Description

------------|------------------------------------

200         |		OK

204         | Prefix is already advertised/withdrawn

400	    | ControlParameters is incorrect

403	    | Command Interest is not authorized

501	    | Module or verb is not supported

503         | Feature is disabled