[P2PSIP] Fwd: I-D Action:draft-hardie-p2poverlay-pointers-00.txt

[Ted Hardie <[e-mail]>]

Howdy,
	I wrote this as a first take on the "how to use a web page, IM,
or email message to give a pointer to an overlay" problem.  I'd appreciate
folks' thoughts on it.  There are several places in the document where what
I've put forward is pretty close to a strawman (the included schema
being one example), so please do not expect me to defend to the
death any of the details here.  I'd like us, however, to have something
in this space and this seemed like a good way to kick off discussion.
			regards,
				Ted






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>	Title           : Mechanisms for use in pointing to overlay networks, nodes, or resources
>	Author(s)       : T. Hardie
>	Filename        : draft-hardie-p2poverlay-pointers-00.txt
>	Pages           : 10
>	Date            : 2008-01-27
>
>Discovering overlay networks and the resources found within in them
>presents a number of bootstrapping problems.  While those hard
>problems are under discussion, this draft proposes a small set of
>mechanisms which are intended to be generically useful for
>providing pointers to peer-to-peer overlay networks in web pages,
>email messages, and other textual media.  While the mechanisms
>described below each meet similar needs, they are not mutually
>exclusive; it is expected that each will find some useful
>deployment during the early days of peer-to-peer overlay
>deployment.
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