I would like to dig this from the tomb and see how the WG would like to solve 
the ALTO discovery in the roaming/nomadic scenario. I would also like to see it 
in the ALTO server discovery document.

-Haibin



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Songhaibin
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:34 PM
> To: Richard Alimi
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [alto] ALTO discovery in roaming scenario
> 
> Hi Rich,
> 
> I think your proposal makes sense. The wikipedia document
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP provides some links to relative RFCs. 
> We
> may find details in these RFCs. I will also try to read them.
> 
> BR,
> -Haibin
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Richard
> Alimi [[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:09 PM
> To: Songhaibin
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [alto] ALTO discovery in roaming scenario
> 
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Songhaibin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi Rich,
> >
> > Thank you for the discussion. See inline.
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Richard
> Alimi [[email protected]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11:57 PM
> > To: Songhaibin
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [alto] ALTO discovery in roaming scenario
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Songhaibin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The indicated by the subject, which is perhaps not fully solved in the 
> >> discovery
> draft, I guess at least the following scenarios should be considered. As I'm 
> not an
> expert on roaming technology, please correct me if you find I am wrong.
> >>
> >> (1) The ALTO client has left its home network, and its IP address is 
> >> dynamically
> assigned by the current network provider (through DHCP or any other method),
> but the ALTO client still uses its home agent to access the Internet. In this 
> case,
> the ALTO server resided in its home network should be the right ALTO server to
> be discovered.
> >>
> >> (2) The ALTO client has left its home network, and its IP address is 
> >> dynamically
> assigned by the current network provider, and the ALTO client uses the foreign
> agent to access Internet or uses its IP address directly to access Internet. 
> In this
> scenario, the ALTO server resided in the current network should be the right 
> one.
> And the existing discovery mechanism works in this scenario.
> >>
> >> (3) If the ALTO client has a persistent IP address when roaming, and it 
> >> uses
> home agent to access Internet, but make large data route to the foreign agent
> directly (optimized routing mode). In this scenario, the ALTO server resided 
> in the
> current network should be the right one to be discovered. However, if it does 
> not
> adopt the optimized routing mode, the ALTO server in the home network should
> be the right one.
> >>
> >
> > I'm not familiar with the technologies backing this, but what entity
> > decides the route that a particular packet will take? Is this DPI
> > living in the network where the client is roaming?  Or is it some
> > entity on the client itself?
> >
> > [Haibin] No, it is not DPI based. Although I'm not an expert on this 
> > either, but I
> think in the mobile IPv6 scenario, the decision is made through the 
> negotiation
> among the mobile node, home agent, and other correspondent nodes.
> >
> 
> Thinking about this at the high level, If the mobile node is involved
> in the negotiation, then it seems like it could work like the
> following for this case:
> (1) Discover an ALTO Server using the home agent (same as case 1 above)
> (2) Discover an ALTO Server using the current network (same as case 2 above)
> (3) When it comes time to apply the ALTO information, apply the
> correct set depending on the routing for that particular request.
> 
> Is that compatible with whatever technologies are used for these scenarios?
> 
> Details on how this works and the negotiation actually takes place
> would be useful.
> 
> Rich
> 
> > BR,
> > -Haibin
> >
> >> (4) (this one is not about roaming) Assume in a big company which has a few
> branch offices in different locations, and VPN tunnels are used to connect 
> these
> branch offices, employees use one proxy to access Internet. Then the ALTO
> server discovery should be based on the proxy's IP address instead of the 
> user's
> IP address.  It also applies to other similar scenarios when end-hosts using
> proxies.
> >>
> >> It might not be a problem when doing third party discovery, but have to
> consider when doing the discovery by the end-host itself.
> >>
> >> BR,
> >> -Haibin
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