Re: [alto] Warren Kumari's Discuss on draft-ietf-alto-xdom-disc-04: (with DISCUSS)

Sebastian Kiesel <ietf-alto@skiesel.de> Wed, 19 December 2018 15:41 UTC

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:41:39 +0100
From: Sebastian Kiesel <ietf-alto@skiesel.de>
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Subject: Re: [alto] Warren Kumari's Discuss on draft-ietf-alto-xdom-disc-04: (with DISCUSS)
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Hi Mirja,

The "don't do this on your laptop" is already in section 5.1.1:

[...] Therefore, using the procedures specified
in this document for resource consumer based ALTO server discovery is
generally NOT RECOMMENDED. 

Sebastian

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 04:14:45PM +0100, Mirja Kuehlewind (IETF) wrote:
> Hi Warren, hi all,
> 
> > Am 19.12.2018 um 01:48 schrieb Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>:
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 6:23 PM Sebastian Kiesel <ietf-alto@skiesel.de> wrote:
> > Warren,
> > 
> > apologies if I restate something obvious, but the key issue for this
> > discussion is probably that the XDOM procedure is NOT supposed to be run
> > on your laptop, but instead on a centralized server such as a Content
> > Delivery Networks's (CDN) HTTP redirect server, a P2P tracker, etc.,
> > i.e., a "resource directory" in the terminology defined in RFC 5693.
> > 
> > 
> > Ah, you might be restating something obvious, but I'd certainly missed the above bit / had gotten that part backwards... 
> 
> 
> Is there anything that could/should be done to further clarify/make it more obvious in the draft? Like „Warning, don’t do this on your laptop“ ;-) … or more like some operational considerations?
> 
> Mirja
> 
>