IF-18 · Vehicle interface

Device provisioning, configuration and OTA

Bind device identity, hardware compatibility, signed artifact, cohort, activation, health and rollback across edge systems.

Name the source—and name what it cannot prove.

The same message can be observation, projection, plan, receipt or physical evidence. This contract keeps those meanings separate.

Authority

The signed artifact and policy define eligibility; each device owns installed slot and health; the control plane owns observed rollout population.

Degraded behavior

Signature, compatibility, storage, power or health failure stops or rolls back within last-known-good policy.

Outcome boundary

Offer, download, install, reboot and healthy operation remain separate; cloud state cannot claim physical device success without evidence.

Choose transport after semantics are fixed.

The program can select one or more transports without changing the source authority or failure contract.

Provisioning APISigned manifestArtifact deliveryBootloader/OS activation adapterHealth report

Compatibility vector

  • schema or ABI version
  • producer release
  • consumer release
  • policy and entitlement revision
  • content/configuration revision
  • territory/platform profile

Acceptance evidence

  • contract compatibility
  • nominal and negative scenarios
  • ordering, replay and idempotency
  • latency, capacity and resource bounds
  • security, privacy and role enforcement
  • offline, recovery and rollback
  • target or operational acceptance
OEM program workshop

Freeze the Device provisioning, configuration and OTA contract before integration.

Allocate owners, transport, schema, releases, policy, content, degradation, replay and target acceptance in one controlled baseline.