Re: [tae] New draft: announcing the supported transports via DNS

Michael Welzl <michawe@ifi.uio.no> Sun, 20 September 2009 07:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tae] New draft: announcing the supported transports via DNS
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> I think the following objectives need to be met for any probe-based 
> solution:
>
> 1) Must add no additional messages when the default protocol is selected.
> 2) TCP must be a valid default protocol.
> 3) There may be a case for adding UDP to that set for RTTP.
> 4) It should be capable of learning when a given client/server pair is 
> blocked
>     from using Transport X by some middle-box. Note: this is something a
>     directory-based solution probably cannot do.,

I agree with this list. It looks like a good starting point to me.

Cheers,
michael