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3Local hub prefix discovery
4==========================
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Davide Pesavento9f6a7d92020-10-06 15:21:48 -0400[diff] [blame]6Some applications need to discover the prefix(es) under which they can publish
7data / which Interests the local hub will be able to forward down to the
8application. In order to discover that, an application can send an Interest for
9``/localhop/nfd/rib/routable-prefixes``. The data in response to this Interest
10will contain a list of prefixes and should be encoded as follows:
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15 Name ; /localhop/nfd/rib/routable-prefixes/[version]/[segment]
16 MetaInfo ; ContentType == BLOB, FreshnessPeriod == 5000
17 ResponseContent
18 DataSignature
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Davide Pesavento9f6a7d92020-10-06 15:21:48 -0400[diff] [blame]22``ResponseContent`` should contain at least one ``Name``, which should be routable
23towards the face from which the request was received. The requester may process
24the list of returned names and pick whichever it wants to use.
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26For now, the ``/localhop/nfd/rib/routable-prefixes`` data is served by
27:ref:`ndn-autoconfig-server`.