Hi Reinaldo, Thanks for your reply. See comments in line.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Reinaldo Penno [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 10:50 AM > To: Song Haibin; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [alto] ALTO client > > Hi, > > On 5/20/10 5:48 PM, "Song Haibin" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > For tracker based p2p applications, some guys proposed to embed the > ALTO > > client within the tracker, so that the p2p clients do not have to be > > changed. But one additional thought comes into mind, peers usually > exchange > > peer list among themselves, does a peer also have to implement ALTO > client > > to select peers from these candidates got from other peers? > > I would say no. ALTO was optional from the beginning since the idea is that > clients can always fall back to original behavior in case of disruption. > > Interesting question what would happen if you control the tracker (as in > your example) but peers can exchange info that ultimately is based on the > original selection done at the tracker. You will loose some localization but > without DHT there is no other place to get peers from, therefore inter-AS > traffic might still be curbed. > A peer can get peers in the same swarm from the connected neighbors in the existing p2p applications, even without DHT. I don't know how much difference there will be if the peer also implements the ALTO client. Haibin > > > > Xie Xie, > > 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
