Hi Ben,

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Ben Niven-Jenkins
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Reinaldo,
>
> On 25 Jun 2011, at 18:47, Reinaldo Penno wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> Endpoint cost service calculates the cost of the client sending the message
>> to one or more clients. The client's IP address is used in order to generate
>> the  appropriate answer.
>>
>> The endpoint property lookup service provides a way to find a list of
>> properties about a endpoint. The IP address of the client sending the query
>> has no bearing on the answer. Or does it?
>>
>> Or you are talking about a client finding properties for itself?
>
> Thanks for the explanation - that makes sense and therefore I think the 
> example in section 10.3 need changing to refer to the Endpoint Cost service, 
> which is the service that allows an ALTO server to use the source IP address 
> in the query packets to derive the source network location as the current 
> reference to the Endpoint Property service in that context is clearly wrong.
>

We'll fix this reference.

Rich

> Ben
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Reinaldo
>>
>>
>> On 6/24/11 10:48 AM, "Ben Niven-Jenkins" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Colleagues,
>>>
>>> Section 10.3 of draft-ietf-alto-protocol-08 states:
>>>
>>>   The protocol specified in this document provides a mode of operation
>>>   where the source network location is computed by the ALTO Server (via
>>>   the Endpoint Property Lookup interface) from the source IP address
>>>   found in the ALTO Client query packets.  This is similar to how some
>>>   P2P Trackers (e.g., BitTorrent Trackers - see "Tracker HTTP/HTTPS
>>>   Protocol" in [BitTorrent]) operate.
>>>
>>> However, although section 7.7.5.1.3 (for the Endpoint Cost service) allows 
>>> the
>>> source address to be inferred from the client's IP address, section 
>>> 7.7.4.1.3
>>> (for the Endpoint Property Lookup service) doesn't allow the source address 
>>> to
>>> be optional or inferred from the client's IP address.
>>>
>>> Is this an oversight in the description of the Endpoint Property Lookup
>>> service or should the example in section 10.3 point to the Endpoint Property
>>> Cost service?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Ben
>>>
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