________________________________________ From: Enrico Marocco [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:13 PM To: Ravi nandiraju Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [alto] WebSocket-based notifications
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. [Ravi] Yes. What I meant by "home device" are the devices which are used by end users as P2P clients and which could potentially use ALTO as clients. > 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. [Ravi] Basically what I meant was, we don't need to consider the case of "user devices" for subscription/notification because for them it is easier to query the information based on need rather than subscribing. I am not very clear if reachability is really a concern in the use case for ALTO subscription/notification. -- Ciao, Enrico _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
