Re: Gen-ART LC review of draft-ietf-pcp-description-option-03

[Simon Perreault <[e-mail]>]

Le 2014-01-27 05:02, Roni Even a écrit :
> This should be stated and I assume that it is not for standardization
> but not clear why the entity operating the PCP server needs it, is it
> described in another document.
>
> I am curious why querying the PCP server is “out of scope” and not is
> “for further work”.

Example use case: you have several hosts in your home that do PCP 
automatically. For example, you start up Transmission, a BitTorrent 
client, and that automatically fires a PCP request to create a mapping. 
Transmission could set a description such as "Transmission BitTorrent 
client running on Roni Even's MacBook Pro". This is useful when you 
access your home router's administration web interface and see the list 
of mappings created with PCP. You can immediately understand what it is 
that is opening holes in your firewall/NAT.

Simon
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