Hi, Ekr: I do not think that we need to re-evaluate the consensus.
Rather we have to see "how" HIP is used in P2PSIP in view of the consensus. BR/Radhika ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Rescorla Date: Friday, June 27, 2008 10:47 Subject: Re: [P2PSIP] HIP for P2P SIP To: Bruce Lowekamp Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], P2PSIP WG , [EMAIL PROTECTED], Henry Sinnreich > At Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:40:39 -0400, > Bruce Lowekamp wrote: > > > > To some extent, these questions are orthogonal to the questions > about a > > potential relationship between HIP and P2PSIP. > > > > Using HIP in a decentralized manner requires a distributed > rendezvous > > service (and distributed name service). An overlay such as have > been > > proposed by the various peer protocol proposals is ideal for > running > > such services. > > > > P2PSIP requires a distributed registrar service. This service > also > > requires a peer protocol (and some layers on top) and is not > supplied by > > HIP. > > > > Now there are still some architectural questions of whether the > peer > > protocol connections should be formed using HIP or not and also > > questions about how to provide the best interface for > applications using > > the services. > > It seems to me that we're repeating ourselves. From the minutes > of PHL: > > The chairs called for consensus on the question "Should we ask > that protocols developed allow HIP to be a customer of the > P2Psip service, > within the constraints of the charter?" There was no opposition. > > The chairs called for consensus on the question "Should we > structure the P2PSIP service such that hip is a) a mandatory > part of the > technical infrastructure b) an optional part of the technical > infrastrcuture c) potentially present only when it replaces > IP, with > no other linkage. Rough consensus for b as the current > answer, with > further discussion as the technical documents describing p2psip > protocols progress. > > Do we really need to rehash the discussions that led to this consensus > call? > > -Ekr > _______________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
