Martin, This is from the WG charter - In order to query the ALTO server, clients must first know one or more ALTO servers that might provide useful information. The WG will look at service discovery mechanisms that are in use, or defined elsewhere (e.g. based on DNS SRV records or DHCP options). If such discovery mechanisms can be reused, the WG will produce a document to specify how they may be adopted for locating such servers. However, a new, general-purpose service discovery mechanism is not in scope.
So this is chartered work. Regards Roni Even -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Stiemerling Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 12:21 PM To: songhaibin 64081; Gustavo Garcia Bernardo Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [alto] ALTO server discovery Hi all, Just a (probably) very silly question: Isn't it way too early to get a discussion about ALTO server discovery started? And also (as Lisa pointed out) there are already many mechanisms to discover hosts, server, and services. I see more the need to spend cycles on ALTO problem space, reqs, basically where do we go with that?! Just my two cents Martin [email protected] NEC Laboratories Europe - Network Research Division NEC Europe Limited | Registered Office: NEC House, 1 Victoria Road, London W3 6BL | Registered in England 2832014 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > songhaibin 64081 > Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 3:50 AM > To: Gustavo Garcia Bernardo > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [alto] ALTO server discovery > > Dear Gustavo, > > > Our idea is to avoid > > defining new discovery protocols and reuse the existing ones > > describing how they can be applied to the ALTO use case. > > > > We have the same thought, and that's also what we did in draft-song- > alto-server-discovery. > > Regards, > Haibin > > > > BR, > > G. > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of > > songhaibin 64081 [[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:25 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [alto] ALTO server discovery > > > > Hi all, > > > > We also submit an ALTO server discovery draft. Here is the link: > > > > http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-song-alto-server-discovery-00.txt > > > > Now there are two drafts on ALTO server discovery. I think they > > have commonness and differences. Our draft mainly focuses on the > > scenario where network operators provide the alto servers. The > > solution has the consideration for residential gateways when using > > DHCP option to retrieve the alto service name. We also take into > > account the discovery process by end terminals and application > > trackers(or proxies). These two drafts can be of compleme > > ntary to each other. > > > > Any comments are appreciated! > > > > Best Regards! > > Song Haibin > > _______________________________________________ > > alto mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto > > > _______________________________________________ > alto mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
