Re: [alto] General comment about draft-penno-alto-protocol-03.txt

["Martin Stiemerling" <Stiemerling at nw.neclab.eu>]

Hi Stefano, 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: stefano previdi [mailto:sprevidi at cisco.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:43 PM
> To: Martin Stiemerling
> Cc: alto
> Subject: Re: [alto] General comment about draft-penno-alto-protocol-
> 03.txt
> 
> 
> On Jul 28, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Martin Stiemerling wrote:
> 
> > Stefano,
> >
> >>
> >> On Jul 28, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Martin Stiemerling wrote:
> >>> I've just learned in the session that there is actually a loss of
> >>> functionality in the merger between Proxidor & P4P: the sorting
> >>> server-based oracle is just gone.
> >>
> >> Proxidor capability of ranking/rating paths is still there and
> >> functionality
> >> is entirely preserved.
> >>
> >> See section 4 of the draft for details.
> >
> > hmm, which part of section 4?
> >
> > I assume that still the sorting feature *at the server*
> 
> I'm not sure I understand  "at the server"...
> 
> if you refer to the case where:
> - client send list of addresses
> - server rank/rate/sort them
> - server replies with an ordered list
> 
> then, this is what we do in section 4.

Section 4 is about path rating but not about "rating at the server" as you've described above and I was also referring to. Or I cannot find the part where it is defined.

  Martin