Hi all, I think we should consider a direct reponse based asymmetric routing as part of the base draft in RELOAD. There are several advantages 1. The latency of a transaction is reduced. 2. Given the increasing spread of mobile devices that may participate in such overlays direct response routing can reduce the resource usage on multiple wireless hops. 3. Many hosts (such as in mobile broadband networks) are not always behind NATs and in such cases direct response routing is even more beneficial as we do not need to perform ICE.
Another draft (ref 1) also supports this view. openDHT also seems to support such as mode of operation (see Ref 2). While it mainly operates on a testbed with public Ips, one can make the case that there may be many such nodes in a deployed RELOAD overlay. E.g. university machines, wireless hosts etc. Ref 1: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-jiang-p2psip-relay-00.txt Ref 2: Sean Rhea, Byung-Gon Chun, John Kubiatowicz, and Scott Shenker. Fixing the Embarrassing Slowness of OpenDHT on PlanetLab. Proceedings of USENIX WORLDS 2005, December 2005. Thanks Saumitra _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
