There was no consensus to include direct response in the base draft. Here's the text of the hum from the notes you point to:
-------- First hum: whether or not we include direct routing as an option in the protocol (not worrying about what draft): result was consensus for including it in the protocol. -------- Direct response routing can be implemented as a forwarding option as described in the base. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-p2psip-base-02#section-5.3.2.4 So while it's possible to do it in other ways, and to include those techniques in the base draft, it's not required. (obviously it's a question of group consensus on whether it should be added to the base draft) Bruce 2009/3/24 Das, Saumitra <[email protected]>: > At the previous IETF there was consensus to add direct response routing as > an option in the protocol. > > > > See: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/p2psip/minutes?item=minutes73.html > > > > This is not yet reflected in the base draft. > > > > My previous post to this effect with some changes is below > > > > "I would like to propose we add a flag bit in the forwarding/common header > that indicates that a direct routing response to a message be used by the > responding node. As a policy, implementations in certain scenarios would > enable the flag as necessary. If the flag is set, the requesting node also > needs to include its reachable address in the forwarding header. > > > > We can indicate that the responding node need not keep state to minimize > complications. The sending node can simply resend a request (e.g STORE) with > the flag turned off if does not receive a response to the initial STORE > request with the flag turned on. > > > > This allows direct routing support in scenarios where the deployer or the > implementation knows it is dealing with reachable IP addresses and can > configure the implementation to behave accordingly." > > > > Thanks > > Saumitra > > _______________________________________________ > P2PSIP mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip > > _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
