Re: [alto] Work related to ALTO at IETF82

Hi Vijay,

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Vijay K. Gurbani <vkg@bell-labs.com> wrote:
> <As individual>
>
> On 11/13/2011 07:31 PM, Richard Alimi wrote:
>>
>> One way forward is to split out Section 8 (redistribution) of
>> draft-ietf-alto-protocol into a separate document as an extension, and
>> only the extension would be blocked on the JOSE WG. Given that this
>> part was not implemented by anyone at the interop event (to my
>> knowledge -- please correct me if I'm wrong) event and there is more
>
> Indeed, the test case document did not include any cases to test
> for redistribution, and none of the participating server implementations
> mentioned this as a supported feature.
>
>> than enough in the base protocol to get this working for the large
>> majority of use cases.
>
> I think this is a reasonable path (again, speaking as an individual,
> since I have not talked to Enrico about this yet as a co-chair).
>
> I note that there is a now-expired draft on ALTO information re-
> distribution [1].  This draft is mentioned in the alto-protocol
> document (see second paragraph of S6.1.2).  What is the relationship
> of [1] to Section 8 of the alto-protocol document?

draft-gu-alto-redistribution was originally intended to provide
information about how one might implement redistribution, but
(intentionally) we did not provide actual protocol specifications due
to the variety of P2P protocols in the wild.  The dependency was
non-normative.  If it seems "weird" to link to that from a
standards-track document (i.e. even if we split Section 8 into a
separate document) then that could be removed - it was only intended
to give readers a pointer for how they might get started.

If on the other hand, it makes sense to revive
draft-gu-alto-redistribution and add it as a WG item we could do that
too - back when we were presenting it it seemed like it didn't gain
much traction, but if thinks have changed, then great :)

Thanks,
Rich

> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gu-alto-redistribution-03
>
> Thanks,
>
> - vijay
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