I think it is necessary to discuss whether we need to standardize different peer selection algorithms according to different types of applications.
Best Regards, Haibin Email: [email protected] Skype: alexsonghw >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Enrico >Marocco >Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:16 PM >To: Zoran Despotovic >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [alto] differences among applications > >Zoran Despotovic wrote: >> I was wondering if and how IETF would address possible differences among >> relevant P2P applications in the sense that different applications may >> require totally different solutions. Was there any discussion on this >> before on the list? > >Yes, there's been some discussion about how to deal with the fact that >different applications may have different requirements for peer >selection -- e.g. file-sharing would benefit most from connections to >peers with higher uplink bandwidth, while realtime communications >applications would probably want to chose media relays with the smallest >delay. > >I remember someone suggested that a way to address it could be to simply >provide a means for the querying peer to specify what parameters it >would like to have optimized (delay, bandwidth...) and let the ALTO >server use such information in its processing. However, AFAIK, no >solution proposals at this time do anything like that. > >-- >Ciao, >Enrico _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
