On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Dan York <[email protected]> wrote: > Victor, > > On Feb 10, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Victor Pascual Ávila wrote: >> >>> DY> Hmmmm... so a "client" doesn't need to know the DHT algorithm to join >>> the overlay network? Perhaps I just need more caffeine this morning, but >>> I >>> guess I don't understand how any node can join the overlay network >>> without >>> understanding the underlying algorithm. I understand that a "peer" would >>> need to know this to join in the overlay and the underlying DHT, but >>> wouldn't the client also? >> >> See draft-pascual-p2psip-clients, Section 4, Argument number 4 >> >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pascual-p2psip-clients-01#page-6 >> >> Please, let me know your opinion. > > DY> Ah... so the clients communicate with the P2P overlay "peer" nodes by > way of the "client protocol". So if the P2P overlay supports such a client > protocol, client nodes can connect to the overlay without any knowledge of > the underlying DHT algorithm (or anything else in the underlying overlay > network). > > DY> Got it... thanks for explaining. > > DY> This does, of course, assume that whatever P2PSIP protocol we use would > have a client protocol. >
Clients are an integral part of the current reload protocol. This is already there without a need for a separate client protocol. A client doesn't need to know anything about the overlay algorithm, it just sets the destination in the via list and lets the peer it's connected to figure out to get it there. http://www.p2psip.org/drafts/draft-ietf-p2psip-base-01a.html#anchor11 Bruce > Regards, > Dan > > -- > Dan York, CISSP, Director of Emerging Communication Technology > Office of the CTO Voxeo Corporation [email protected] > Phone: +1-407-455-5859 Skype: danyork http://www.voxeo.com > Blogs: http://blogs.voxeo.com http://www.disruptivetelephony.com > > Build voice applications based on open standards. > Find out how at http://www.voxeo.com/free > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > P2PSIP mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip > _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
