Hi Ekr, >-----Original Message----- >From: Eric Rescorla [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 3:32 PM >To: Song Haibin >Cc: 'Bruce Lowekamp'; 'Roni Even'; 'Eric Rescorla'; [email protected] >Subject: Re: [P2PSIP] Bootstrap peer status > >At Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:23:53 +0800, >Song Haibin wrote: >> >> Hi Bruce, >> >> Various early drafts have proposed the mechanisms of bootstrap peer >> discovery, e.g. draft-garcia-p2psip-dns-sd-bootstrapping-00, and >> draft-matthews-p2psip-bootstrap-mechanisms-00. Even in the p2psip base draft >> section 11.4, it also describes that using the cached peers or broadcast >> mechanisms to find the bootstrap peers. However, the only remaining issue >> here is what I mentioned in my last email that how the enrollment server >> guarantees the effectiveness of the information of the bootstrap peers in >> the configuration file, which is very important for the initial bootstrap >> process of p2p nodes, even for the later bootstrap process when it can't >> find effective bootstrap nodes with other methods. >> >> The charter assumes the enrollment server can provide an initial set of >> bootstrap nodes, but I am not sure if it assumes the effectiveness of the >> bootstrap nodes. By the way, another factor that impacts the effectiveness >> of the bootstrap nodes is that whether or not the bootstrap nodes are behind >> NATs. > >Yes, I agree that it's important that the bootstrap nodes be both >available and publicly reachable. The question is whether the >specification needs to actually provide a mechanism for the >configuration server to determine that's the case or whether >we can assume that the operators of the system can figure out >how to do that themselves using existing IETF standards >such as SNMP. IMO, the latter approach is preferable.
I doubt whether SNMP is suitable for this purpose, or we will use some existing methods defined in the p2p protocol for it. I would like to use the existing p2p method for it. Song Haibin _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
