Re: [ppsp] Barry Leiba's Discuss on draft-ietf-ppsp-base-tracker-protocol-10: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

Hi, Rachel, and thanks for addressing my comments.

>> -- Section 3.1 --
>>
>>    A JSON object consists of name/value pairs.  The JSON names of the
>>    pairs are indicated with "".
>>
>> I don't find the meaning of the second sentence to understandable at all.
>>  What are you trying to say?
>
> [Rachel]: Actually we mean name = quotation-mark *char quotation-mark.
> [RFC7159] has specified it, so how about we delete the related sentences?

Yes, that seems best; I'll have another look after you're updated the document.

>> -- Subsections of 3.2 --
>> Where are the semantics of the string values, such as "HIGH", "NORMAL",
>> and "LOW", defined?
>
> [Rachel]: Right. And I think it's hard to define any empirical value
> in this document. So how about changing the meaning of the 4 optional
> attributes to the requesting peer's status? So that concurrent_links,
> online_time, upload_bandwidth can be changed to ppsp_tp_integer_t
> type. Thus, tracker can do some peer selection based on peer's current
> status?

Your suggestion here seems fine, if you add a few words to give a
sense of what the integer value might mean (realizing that it's going
to be vague, and that vague is OK).

>> Is the definition give for "LEECH" sufficient?:
>>
>>    LEECH:  A Peer that has not yet completed the transfer of all Chunks
>>    of the media content.
>>
>> I don't think "completed the transfer" is clear enough, and "transfer"
>> can be outbound or inbound.  Would something like "A Peer that has not yet
>> received all chunks of the media content, and therefore can't be used to share
>> the content," be better?  And isn't it possible for a peer to share the chunks
>> that it has, even if it doesn't have all of the chunks?
>
> [Rachel]: A peer can share the received chunks even if it doesn't have
> all the chunks. So how about changing to "A peer that has nothing or
> has not yet received all chunks of the media content"?

That's fine; thanks.

Barry