I think we could be a little more flexible than that too. As long as a bootstrap peer can allow some devices to join the overlay and is not reachable by every node in the overlay it can still function as a bootstrap peer. A node behind a NAT at a small office may be a bootstrap peer for nodes in that office since it is part of a larger overlay although it is not reachable by every member of the overlay.
What Jiang suggests is definitely an improvement over the current definition. Best, Saumitra -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jiangxingfeng 36340 Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 8:31 PM To: Dean Willis Cc: [email protected] Subject: [P2PSIP] 回复 :Re: Bootstrap peer reachability in draft-ietf-p2psip-base-00 Hi,Dean: Maybe a term named "publicly reachable" should be added. With the new term, we can be clear on the semantics of "public". I also defined the term in draft-jiang-p2psip-relay-00(http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-jiang-p2psip-relay-00.txt) as the follows: publicly reachable: A node is publicly reachable if it can receive unsolicited messages from any other node in the same overlay. Note: "publicly" does not mean that the nodes MUST be on the public Internet, because RELOAD protocol may be used in a closed system. Hope it is helpful. Regards Jiang XingFeng > > On Nov 14, 2008, at 3:00 AM, jiangxingfeng 36340 wrote: > > > I agree. "Public" here does not mean a global routable address. > IMO, > > it depends on the scenarios. As you mentioned, in some closed > > overlay, it does not require bootstrap peer to have a public > > address. It only requires that the bootstrap peers can be > reached by > > any other peers in the same overlay directly. In relay > draft(http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-jiang-p2psip-relay-00.txt > > ), authors propose a mechanism to determine whether a peer can > be a > > "public peer". > > > > I'd like to add a term in concetp draft to make "public" more clear. > > > What term would you like to add? > > -- > Dean > > _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
