Re: Review of draft-ietf-mmusic-sap-v2-01.txt

[Colin Perkins <[e-mail]>]

--> Dave Thaler writes:
>The abstract and introduction specifically say that SAP is
>implemented by _clients_.  My understanding is that in the
>original framework, and in what the authors envision as a "good" solution,
>SAP is actually implemented by _servers_, and you have a separate
>mechanism to communicate between clients and servers (if they
>are implemented as separate processes, unlike sdr).
>
>If we support SAP, it will likely be on servers not clients (there's 
>already a diagram in MSDN showing this), and I know there's been talk among 
>the spec authors that sdr ought to change to do this as well.  Hence, 
>I would like to see both the abstract and the introduction changed to 
>reflect that current practice is not best practice, and that SAP is 
>actually intended for server-server communication.  Section 10 is 
>not sufficient to address my concern.

The current protoocol is intended to be agnostic in this regard, hence the
use of the announcer/listener terminology. Section 9 "Scalability and
caching" is to encourage the deployment of servers, and I'd expect another
draft to be produced eventually which would describe how those servers can
be accessed (which may be a new protocol, or simply a set of recommendations
on how to use existing protocols).

I'll fix the wording to make this clearer.

Colin