The IANA section also has Overlay Algorithm Types registry

Roni Even

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Bruce Lowekamp
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:53 PM
To: David A. Bryan
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [P2PSIP] Interoperability vs Pluggability (was Re: mobile p2p in 
p2psip)

the algorithm is specified as "topology-plugin" in the overlay configuration.

http://www.p2psip.org/drafts/draft-ietf-p2psip-base-01a.html#sec-configuration

Bruce

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:08 AM, David A. Bryan <[email protected]> wrote:
> If having a mechanism to negotiate the DHT isn't in there, it
> definitely is something that needs to be corrected. Going all the way
> back to draft-bryan-sipping-p2p-02 there were fields for specifying
> which DHT should be used, and a section on negotiating it (since it
> was SIP, it was very straight-forward -- we specified that you use
> offer/answer...). I'm fine with falling back to a client protocol
> connection, but that doesn't change the fact we need a mechanism to
> negotiate the DHT if we support pluggable DHTs. Failing to find a
> common one, you can fall back to client connection.
>
> It may very well be there, or it could have somehow fallen out of the
> most recent version (can one of the authors comment?) If it did fall
> out somehow, it is good for people to point things like this out about
> RELOAD. I think when things got merged, many of the practical parts
> that were in the earlier drafts (at least those that were actually
> implemented) got unintentionally lost, or at least the descriptions
> became less clear as the complexity grew, and these are exactly the
> sorts of things that need to be corrected as we work to move forward
> the draft.
>
> David (as individual)
>
> 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.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dan
>>
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