Hi Sebastian,

Thank you for your always excellent comments.

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Sebastian Kiesel <[email protected]>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> as discussed in the virtual interim today, I think the introduction
> section should give crossrefs to the problem statement and requirements
> RFCs at a prominent place.  Whether to repeat the problem statement
> in different words or not, is indeed a question of taste. I don't think
> it is neccessary but I dpn't object against the current text.
> Cross-checking against the other two RFCs I see no contradictions.
>
> So my proposal is to add something between the section titles of
> 1. and 1.1., maybe:
>
> 1.  Introduction
>
> The protocol specified in this document provides a solution for
> the issues identified in the ALTO problem statement [RFC 5693].
> It meets the requirements itemized in the ALTO requirements document
> [RFC 6708]. A short, non-normative overview on the problem and the
> solution approach is given in the following subsections.
>
>
OK. We will adopt it.


> 1.1.  Background and Problem Statement
>
> ...
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> One more comment about section 1.2.2, which says:
>
>     For example, a peer-to-peer overlay application can use information
>     provided by an ALTO Service to avoid selecting peers connected with
>     low bandwidth links.
>
>
> ALTO and link bandwidth is a mine field - not impossible at all, but
> difficult, see the long discussions we had, partly summarized in sec.
> 8.2.3 of draft-ietf-alto-deployments-06.  Therefore I think it would
> be wise to use a less controversial example here, say:
>
>
>     For example, a peer-to-peer overlay application can use information
>     provided by an ALTO Service to avoid selecting peers connected via
>     intercontinental (i.e., high-delay) links.
>
>
>
I like the revision. I may suggest some change to the wording, since some
two points in two continents may be closer to some two intra-continent
points:

For example, a peer-to-peer overlay application can use information
provided by an ALTO Service to avoid selecting peers connected via
high-delay links (e.g., some intercontinental links).

What do you think?

Richard


>
> Thanks
> Sebastian
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