# Akri Roadmap

OFFICIAL ROADMAP LIVES HERE: https://docs.akri.sh/community/roadmap

Here is a list of our backlog / features we want to implement in the future.

## Additional Protocol Support
- MQTT
- RTSP
- Zeroconf/mDNS
- Bluetooth
- CoAP
- Simple scan for IP/MAC addresses
- LoRaWAN
- acpid
- Looking for community feedback for more!

## Feature Backlog
- Enable Akri’s discovery handlers to authenticate with devices before marking them as discovered
- Enable providing Akri brokers (customer workloads deployed by Akri) appropriate credentials for authenticating with devices
- Investigate and conduct a size reduction of Akri containers
- Performance testing and stress testing to know Akri’s limits and have a benchmark for a v1
- Update threat model (separated by core components and discovery handlers)
- Configuration-level support
- Prune Akri's dependencies
- Enable a scenario with 1 network based discovery handler across the cluster rather than one per node
- Job style discovery handlers that discover devices and then terminate
- Make device offline grace period configurable
- Decouple broker definition and reate a new Akri broker CRD
- Akri can orchestrate chaining of brokers
- Implement RBAC handling for requests incoming to the broker
- Investigate support for Dynamic Resource Allocation model
- Investigate multi-NIC support