Hi Sebastian, On 15 Nov 2012, at 21:26 , Sebastian Kiesel wrote: > As you can see the ALTO4ALTO draft has expired quite some time ago. > We've been discussing architectural options for quite a while now > and there was not much positive feedback about this draft so far. > > My personal favorite topic is still the third-party discovery. If we > had a working solution for that we could also use it for the resource > consumer initiated discovery. > > But 3pdisc causes lots of headaches so we decided to push forward a > simple solution at least for resource consumer initiated discovery. From > a technical point of view I think both is feasible, DHCP/DNS based > discovery as well as ALTO4ALTO style discovery, but I cannot see a clear > winner. From procedural point of view the DHCP/DNS way has advantages > as it is based on more established and solid base protocols.
As I said in my reply to Michael, probably it makes sense to consider the HTTP(S) based discovery for the future evolution of the protocol (as mostly discussed in the i2aex BoF), and stay in the DNS path so we have a first version of all required mechanisms soon. Be goode, -- "Esta vez no fallaremos, Doctor Infierno" Dr Diego R. Lopez Telefonica I+D http://people.tid.es/diego.lopez/ e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +34 913 129 041 Mobile: +34 682 051 091 ----------------------------------------- ________________________________ Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. Puede consultar nuestra política de envío y recepción de correo electrónico en el enlace situado más abajo. This message is intended exclusively for its addressee. We only send and receive email on the basis of the terms set out at: http://www.tid.es/ES/PAGINAS/disclaimer.aspx _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
