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On 02/13/2011 05:04 PM, Bruce Lowekamp wrote:
> Marc,
> 
> I think there's an underlying issue here of whether it's important to
> - use the same "physical" connection between two physical nodes that
> are both acting as multiple virtual nodes for all pairs of
> connectivity between them
> AND
> - differentiate on the receipt of a message what pair of virtual nodes
> A'->B' the original sender believed the message was going between.
> 
> I'm not immediately convinced that this is a useful property for the
> routing system, as if each physical node is merging the virtual nodes'
> routing tables and forwarding to the closest match, I don't think it's
> necessary for reliable routing.  However, if you have a pointer to a
> description of why this would be useful, I'd be very interested in
> reading it.
> 
> With that said, my current opinion is that what you want to accomplish
> can and should be accomplished through a new routing algorithm.

OK, fair enough.

> However, I think we should move to incorporate the new SignerIdentity
> into the base draft and probably handle the IceExtension as a new
> draft.  

OK, I'll write the I-D before the cut-off, and will implement it.

Thanks.

> But both should probably get a thread of their own so they
> have more eyes.
> 
> More comments inline
> 
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/08/2011 06:25 PM, Bruce Lowekamp wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> Thanks for your responses. see below for more comments.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 01/07/2011 02:24 PM, Bruce Lowekamp wrote:
>>>>>> inline
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin <[email protected]> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> More questions, comments and nits:
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - A.10. It seems that this version of RELOAD lacks the support of virtual
>>>>>> servers (see draft-harjula-p2psip-loadbalancing-survey), more precisely 
>>>>>> a way to
>>>>>> share connections between two virtual servers on the same physical 
>>>>>> server (see
>>>>>> Frank Dabek, M. Frans Kaashoek, David Karger, Robert Morris, Ion Stoica,
>>>>>> Wide-area cooperative storage with CFS: "Use of virtual servers could
>>>>>> potentially increase the number of hops in a Chord lookup.  CFS avoids 
>>>>>> this
>>>>>> expense by allowing virtual servers on the same physical server to 
>>>>>> examine each
>>>>>> others' tables: the fact that these virtual servers can take short-cuts 
>>>>>> through
>>>>>> each others' routing table exactly compensates for the increases number 
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> servers.").  Because the certificates contains a list of Node-IDs, it is 
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> possible to know on a hop by hop basis what are the source and 
>>>>>> destination
>>>>>> NodeIds of a specific message.  Section 3 of
>>>>>> draft-rosenberg-dispatch-vipr-reload-usage seems to acknowledge that by 
>>>>>> adding a
>>>>>> PeerID Shim to exchange the source and destination peerIDs (aka 
>>>>>> Node-IDs).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Because of this, it is probably a good idea to add in p2psip-base the
>>>>>> possibility to know the source Node-ID and destination Node-ID of a 
>>>>>> message.
>>>>>> One way to do that would have be to have the sender of a message add its 
>>>>>> own
>>>>>> Node-ID in the via_list, and the Node-ID of the destination in the
>>>>>> destination_list before sending a message (similar to what SIP is 
>>>>>> doing), but I
>>>>>> guess that it is too late for such a modification.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I totally agree that vnodes should share routing state.  But it's not
>>>>>>> clear to me what benefit would be obtained by making that sort of a
>>>>>>> protocol change.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> * on request routing, a message should normally have exactly one
>>>>>>> destination node-id.  The only reason to have more would be that the
>>>>>>> request sender has some particular reason to want to source-route the
>>>>>>> request.
>>>>>>> * on response sending, with recursive response you simply want to
>>>>>>> reverse the initial request routing.  If there was an advantage to
>>>>>>> "short-cutting" between v-nodes, it would have been done on the
>>>>>>> request routing.   If you're not doing recursive response routing,
>>>>>>> then this case is the same as request routing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let's forget for now the solution I proposed.  Do you agree that Section 
>>>>> 3 of
>>>>> draft-rosenberg-dispatch-vipr-reload-usage exposes a problem that would 
>>>>> be worth
>>>>> been solved in p2psip-base?
>>>>
>>>> I think we're merging two separate issues here:
>>>>
>>>> - how do you differentiate the sender of an end-to-end-message
>>>> - how do you identify the multiple Node-IDs of an adjacent node
>>>>
>>>> For the first, I think SignerIdentity is the logical place.  Using
>>>> hash_alg, certificate_hash, and Node-ID would be sufficient.
> 
> I agree, with one caveat:  If the sender of the message is also an adjacent
> node, and the extension described below is not implemented, then { hash_alg,
> certificate_hash, Node-ID } does not permit to differentiate the sender if 
> there
> is multiple Node-IDs in the certificate.  This is because the Via is added by
> the receiving node instead of the sending node.
> 
> 
>> Again, I think a new SignerIdentity would be sufficient for
>> identifying the originator of the message.  You're right that it
>> doesn't identify the virtual node acting in this case.
> 
>>>>
>>>> For adjacent nodes, I would rather encode it using an IceExtension in
>>>> the Attach sequence that's already flowing than use a shim approach,
>>>> particularly because it avoids issues with datagram protocols.
> 
> OK.  I still think that having 1) each node adding the Via before sending
> (instead of by the receiving node), 2) all nodes adding the next hop on top of
> the destination_list before forwarding and 3) the receiving node dropping the
> first node in the destination_list before applying the routing algorithm would
> have been a better solution.
> 
> 
>> This strikes me as a major change, but if you want to start a separate
>> thread on it, we could see if others feel the same way.  I think this
>> routing algorithm is only required if we want the property above.  No
>> objections to your defining a routing algorithm extension that has
>> this property, of course.
> 
> 
> 
>>>>
>>>> I have mixed feelings on whether either of these should be in the base
>>>> protocol.  I really think that SignerIdentity should handle that case.
>>>>  But I think the support for multiple NodeIDs over a connection adds a
>>>> lot of complexity and might be better as an extension.
> 
> Well, I am willing to write immediately the I-D for such extension (because my
> implementation is using multiple Node-IDs per certificate), so let me know if
> this is the way to go.
> 
> 
>> Probably best to start a separate thread, but I'd be happy to see a
>> draft proposing the IceExtension.
> 
>> Bruce
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>>

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