Hi Ekr, >-----Original Message----- >From: Eric Rescorla [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 10:42 PM >To: Song Haibin >Cc: 'Eric Rescorla'; 'Bruce Lowekamp'; 'Roni Even'; [email protected] >Subject: Re: [P2PSIP] Bootstrap peer status > >At Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:34:26 +0800, >Song Haibin wrote: >> >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. > >Again, I think you need to explain why you think this needs to be >standardized by the protocol.
The effectiveness of the bootstrap peer list is an important and inevitable issue for the bootstrap of the p2p overlay. I am not sure if we can just say that "identifying and tracking active bootstrap peers will be very deployment specific" as Bruce said, and ignore this issue in the protocol. >From another point of view, I don't think it can be standardized anywhere else other than in the p2p layer protocol. Haibin _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
