Re: [Int-area] Re: Discovering a Location Server in the Access Network

Hannes Tschofenig <Hannes.Tschofenig@gmx.net> Fri, 21 September 2007 18:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Int-area] Re: Discovering a Location Server in the Access Network
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My mail was a new (and different) attempt to receive some feedback.
So far, didn't work. Just bad luck.

Ciao
Hannes

Joe Touch wrote:
> Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I haven't received concerns regarding the suggested discovery approach.
>> May I assume from the lack of feedback that the suggested approach is
>> reasonable?
>>     
>
> I have seen this sort of conclusion claimed before, and it is incorrect.
>
> Silence is not a hum in favor.
>
> I don't have a position on this per se, but if nobody can step forward
> and claim this is a reasonable solution, all we have is 'lack of
> feedback', not 'consensus'.
>
> Joe
>
> ...
>   
>>> In short, the current proposal (see
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-geopriv-lis-discovery-02.txt;
>>> ignoring Section 2 which defines the DHCP portion) essentially does
>>> the following:
>>>
>>> * Discover the public IP address of the end point
>>> * Perform a reverse DNS lookup to learn the domain
>>> * Lookup the LIS for that domain
>>> * Contact the LIS
>>>       
>
>   



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