Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> We want to use GRASP to permit the bootstrap proxy to discover where
    >> the Registrar(s) are.  As far as I can see there are really two
    >> options, and they might not be mutually exclusive.
    >>
    >> a) start a multicast M_DISCOVERY which will be propagated forward and
    >> can be answered from caches.  b) listen for an M_FLOOD.
    >>
    >> As I see it there are advantages and disadvantages to each.
    >>
    >> My take before was that M_DISCOVERY was to be preferred in most cases.
    >> I'm really just writing to confirm this belief.

    > As always, it's a tradeoff. My impression after discussions some months
    > ago was the the BRSKI team preferred M_FLOOD, but I have no strong
    > opinion.

We want M_FLOOD for discovery *OF* the proxy.
I'm asking about discovery *BY* the proxy *OF* the registrar.

    > Firstly, I assume that the registrar/proxy hookup can take place over
    > the ACP, because the nodes involved already have certificates and the
    > ACP has formed itself.  (This will occur as an expanding circle around
    > the registrar, which will proxy for itself on its own link-local
    > interfaces.) So from a security viewpoint, there isn't much difference.

Agreed.

    > Secondly, the methods aren't mutually exclusive. If the "normal" method
    > is flooding an objective that I've called "AN_registrar" in my toy
    > code, nothing prevents discovery/synchronize being used as a backup.

Question:  should all the internal objectives be AN_ ??

    > That said, it seems that once a proxy has found a registrar, there's no
    > need for a regular refresh, so discovery seems appropriate. (Don't
    > forget that the discovery cache will time out, but that's standard.)

    > Send comments on
    > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-carpenter-anima-ani-objectives We
    > assumed the flooding model for registrar/proxy there, but described
    > both models for the pledge/proxy hookup.

I intend to contribute to it this week.

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