On 7/25/12 7:47 AM, Ravi nandiraju wrote:
> I don't envisage ALTO clients like home devices using the
> subscription mechanism because, for a home device client it is easier
> to query the ALTO server for a changed map information rather than
> going for a subscription.

Just to be clear, here by "home device" you actually mean "user
devices", i.e. any laptop, desktop, smartphone and whatnot that may for
example run in a home network.

> IMO, this subscription mechanism would be useful for infrastructure
> cases like gateway devices, CDN, inter-DC etc where the problem of
> reachability is not so complex as in the case of peer to peer.

And useless in any environments where global reachability cannot be
taken for granted. Agreed.

-- 
Ciao,
Enrico

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