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  1. OMG Issue

DDSIRTP25 — Incomplete specification of how a Publisher and Subscriber are identified

  • Key: DDSIRTP25-3
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Real-Time Innovations ( Dr. Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, Ph.D.)
  • Summary:

    The specification uses a field called remoteGroupEntityId (see Table 8.67) to identify Publishers and Subscribers.

    Furthermore it specifies that this s communicated using a PID_ENDPOINT_GUID.

    It seems that this is related to PID_GROUP_GUID.
    But Table 9.14 says that PID_GROUP_GUID is "reserved for future versions"

    The relationship between this should be clarified.
    Furthermore the implementation of GROUP order and coherent access (8.7.5 and 8.7.6) require knowledge of which DataWriter belong to which Publishers. But how this is discovered is not specified.

    Minimally we should say that:

    A Publisher has a GUID that should be constructed from the GuidPrefix_t and an Entity_id.

    The PublisherGUID shall be communicated vis discovery using either a PID_GROUP_ENTITYID or PID_GROUP_GUID

    The WriterProxy::remoteGroupEntityId should contain the Publisher GUID

  • Reported: DDSI-RTPS 2.3b1 — Sat, 2 Mar 2019 19:56 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — DDSI-RTPS 2.5
  • Disposition Summary:

    Add information on the identification of Publisher and Subscriber

    Indicate that the Publisher and Subscriber are identified by a GUID and that the GUID is propagated via the Publication and Subscription builtin Topic data.

  • Updated: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 12:54 GMT
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