Hi, related to the work item below, I've just heard that some folks had already been discussing the submission of a more targeted BOF proposal. Depending on the details of that proposal (which I haven't seen yet), work item (3) might be subsumed by it.
On 2008-6-6, at 15:58, Lars Eggert wrote: > (3) A mechanism that lets an application that can > transfer data from or to several potential peers (i.e., > servers, caches, end systems) select a subset of peers > for efficient transmission in a way that is aligned with > the dynamic interconnection structure of the network > operators that provide connectivity to those peers. > Application designers, network equipment vendors and > network operators will need to collaborate on this work > item to define what kinds of dynamic interconnection > information is useful to applications, how to obtain it, > and how to provide it to applications, resulting in a > generic mechanism that is broadly applicable to many > current and future applications. This work item has > obvious interactions with the IETF's Application, Routing > and Operations areas. In order to make this effort more > manageable, it may make sense to work out the > requirements for such a solution first, before discussing > individual proposals or breaking up the work into pieces > for specification in different areas or WGs. Lars _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
