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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
