I also wanted to point out that there is what I believe to be a reasonably good problem statement regarding the problem as it relates to residential gateways in the document:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-geopriv-res-gw-lis-discovery There is also some discussion in the document on solutions, but I wouldn't dwell on those overmuch. --Martin > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Lepinski [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, 26 March 2009 3:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Thomson, Martin; Winterbottom, James > Subject: ALTO Discovery and draft-ietf-geopriv-lis-discovery > > Just wanted to quickly re-iterate a point that Martin Thomson had made > during today's ALTO meeting. > > GEOPRIV has been working (for well over a year) on the following > problem: > "How does a device locate a server providing a given service that is > topologically close (in a network topology sense) to the device" > > In the case of GEOPRIV, the service in question is a 'Location > Information Server (LIS)', but a believe that the problem of > discovering > a "local" (in a network topology sense) alto server has many similar > challenges as the GEOPRIV discovery problem. > > Based on my experience in GEOPRIV, I believe that getting this type of > discovery to work well in all cases is quite hard (especially if one > has > security concerns regarding an attacker who may try to impersonate a > legitimate provider of the service [be it ALTO or LIS]). > > Currently, the work in GEOPRIV is still incomplete, but I would > encourage anyone whose been thinking about ALTO discovery to read > draft-ietf-geopriv-lis-discovery-08, and if you have any insights on > how > to improve the GEOPRIV document based on your experience with ALTO, > please send comments to the GEOPRIV list (and the authors). Also, > perhaps we can get several people who have been thinking about GEOPRIV > discovery to review the ALTO discovery documents. (I'm happy to > volunteer, though I'm definitely not as much of an expert on this topic > as Martin and James, who I have been kind enough to CC <grin>). > > - Matt Lepinski > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any unauthorized use of this email is prohibited. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [mf2] _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
