Hi Martin, > I have read just some drafts about the third-party ALTO server discovery > (including draft-kiesel-alto-3pdisc-00) and I'm struggling to find the > actual reasoning for the need of this discovery. > > Any hint to a draft with a technical reasoning or email thread I haven't > found.
A P2P tracker may wish to use ALTO information to bias the peer lists returned to P2P clients. If P2P clients do not perform the discovery themselves (e.g., if the P2P clients are not modified), then the P2P tracker may need to do the discovery on behalf of the P2P client. Does this clarify things? -- Richard Alimi Department of Computer Science Yale University _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
