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# Discussion
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Instance-related messages close an important semantic gap of SDF, which so far was only capable of describing device classes and their capabilities.
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Instance-related messages close an important semantic gap of SDF, which so far was only capable of describing device classes and their capabilities, leaving the exercise of affordances to the ecosystem-specific mechanisms.
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There are, however, a few aspects that need special consideration and have to be addressed by more fine-grained specifications in the future that will buid upon this one.
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Instance-related messages allow for the setting of timestamps that currently relate to the message as a whole.
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Instance-related messages allow for noting down timestamps that currently relate to the message as a whole.
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Since the values contained within an instance-related message might reflect state updates such as measurements that occurred before composing the message, this timestamp cannot accurately reflect the device state at that exact moment.
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In this sense, instance-related messages really are imperfect "proofshots" when it comes to the state of affordances, also considering that there might be concurrency problems if a device is updated while generating a Snapshot or Delta message.
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With IoT devices, many additional potential time-related problems arise, as devices might have access to (credible) time information {{-raytime}} or can only measure time unreliably due to resource constraints, accuracy problems, and/or their sleeping behavior {{Section 4.4 of -terms}}.
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With IoT devices, many additional potential time-related problems arise, as devices might have access to (credible) time information {{-raytime}} or can only measure time unreliably due to resource constraints, accuracy problems, and/or their sleeping behavior ({{Section 4.4 of -terms}}).
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In cases like these, timestamps might have to be omitted from instance-related messages or need to be estimated by a more reliable intermediary.
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The security considerations of {{-sdf}} apply to this document as well.
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Entities processing instance-related messages need to take measures to ensure the provenance of instance-related messages, including authenticity and integraty.
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Entities processing instance-related messages need to take measures to ensure the provenance of instance-related messages, including authenticity and integrity.
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For this purpose, they may use the context and state information contained within a given message.
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Instance-related information may might only be available in certain scopes, e.g. when it comes to security-related configuration parameters.
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