Just to be sure:  You envision the app selecting peers for specific
pieces of content and peer selection will use network data of some type
in doing so?

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Stanislav Shalunov
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:51 PM
To: Zoran Despotovic
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [alto] differences among applications

 

As others pointed out, an ALTO protocol is not expected to make peer
selections for the apps.  On a high level, it's expected to provide
information about the network and about ISP routing preferences.

 

While peer selection preferences vary from application to application
substantially, the network itself is the same, and so the information
about it remains valid.

 

-- Stas

 

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Zoran Despotovic
<[email protected]> wrote:

Hi all,

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?

Just as an example, different criteria to drive peer selection may work
differently for give-to-get streaming and tit-for-tat BT. So how will
IETF deal with this? Standardize different solutions for different
applications? Standardize one solution for all? Pick the most critical
(heaviest traffic) applications and standardize a solution for it?

It makes sense to clarify that at this early stage and, perhaps, first
see if the solution should and can be application agnostic or not.

Best regards,
Zoran

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