On Nov 4, 2012, at 16:16 , Marc Petit-Huguenin <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 11/04/2012 08:23 AM, Cullen Jennings wrote:
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>> I like your solution but given that base is deployable without this, I
>> wonder if you could just write this up in a separate draft that was an
>> extension to base?
> 
> Sure, in this case remove all the stuff in -base related to anycast/multicast
> and broadcast (as agreed in Vancouver), and I'll start working on a draft with
> the bits removed from -base, plus my proposal.  I may even be able to do that
> and publish before the P2PSIP WG meeting.
> 
> As the new draft will take text from -base, what authors from -base should I
> add to the new draft?

I don't think you need to take any of them. You might put in acknowledgment 
that explained the original source….

> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 20, 2012, at 10:29 , Marc Petit-Huguenin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> In Vancouver we decided[1] to remove the support for 
>> multicast/anycast/broadcast in the RELOAD spec, following a discussion
>> back in Taipei about problems for supporting anycast.
>> 
>> I thought a bit more about the anycast problem, and I found a solution to 
>> this problem that is simple and so that would permit to keep the text in 
>> -base.
>> 
>> To summarize the problem, a bootstrap node cannot be directly running on an
>> anycast address because the real destination can change at any time, and 
>> that would break DTLS.  That can be solved by adding the IP address of a 
>> bootstrap node not running on the anycast address in the PingResponse, but 
>> unfortunately this is not a compatible change.  There is other problems
>> with this approach, related to the fact that the Ping must be sent without
>> DTLS (naked Ping).
>> 
>> But, as per -base section 6.5.1.4, all RELOAD nodes are also STUN servers, 
>> so the naked Ping can be replaced by a STUN connectivity check.  The nice 
>> thing about STUN is that the support for anycast is already there, as a
>> STUN server running on an anycast address will respond with a 300 Try
>> Alternate with an ALTERNATE-SERVER attribute containing the IP address of
>> the non-anycast node.
>> 
>> So the whole problem can be solved by just saying in -base that any 
>> connection to the bootstrap servers must start with a STUN connectivity 
>> check.  The first IP address to successfully respond (i.e. after
>> processing the 300), is the one where the DTLS/TLS connection must be
>> established to start sending the RELOAD messages.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> [1] https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/84/minutes/minutes-84-p2psip [2] 
>> https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/82/minutes/minutes-82-p2psip
>> 
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