At Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:19:19 -0500 (EST), Salman Abdul Baset wrote: > > > >> -A node may join the overlay as a client. Later, it may be invited by a > >> peer to upgrade itself to the overlay. A client may also decide to upgrade > >> itself to a peer. > >> > >> -A node's attempt to join as a peer may be defered by a peer because > >> it has not been up for certain time. The peer can then ask the node to > >> join as a client. > > > > I don't see the point of either the peer refusing to let you join > > as a peer or asking you to join as one. The client knows its > > own properties better than the peer does and the peer has no > > special standing--it just happens to ahve a peer-id > > close that of the client. > > A peer may refuse to let a node join as a peer because a node is > considered 'abusive' by the admitting peer or does not meet desired > security properties.
Actually, I think this is a really bad idea. There's no practical way to distinguish this from the admitting peer just being malicious. -Ekr _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
