Hi all, For this topic, perhaps we could vote in the mailing list to achieve a rough consensus.
(1) Maintaining an effective bootstrap peer list for the overlay configuration file is important and inevitable, and should be specified in the base protocol draft; (2) Specify how a current bootstrap peer list can be maintained in a separate draft (3) Identifying and tracking active bootstrap peers will be very deployment specific. It is out of scope for this work group. IMO, I would choose (1) or (2). Best Regards, Haibin Email: [email protected] Skype: alexsonghw >-----Original Message----- >From: Narayanan, Vidya [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 6:59 AM >To: Eric Rescorla; Song Haibin >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [P2PSIP] Bootstrap peer status > >> >> Yes, I agree that it's important that the bootstrap nodes be both >> available and publicly reachable. > >A given bootstrap node only needs to be reachable to a given joining peer - so, >I don't think "publicly reachable" is a hard requirement to serve as a bootstrap >peer. That said, you likely need some bootstrap peers that are publicly >reachable for overlays that are meant to be available across the Internet. > >> 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 think there is some merit to specifying how a current bootstrap peer list can >be maintained - it would also help to allow peers to volunteer to serve the >bootstrap function as they join the overlay. I think this can be specified >outside of the base spec itself though. > >- Vidya > >> -Ekr >> _______________________________________________ >> P2PSIP mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
