Re: [p2pi] Charter and problem statement

["Damien Saucez" <damien.saucez at uclouvain.be>]

Salman,

> In addition to comments by Stanislav, a question to be considered is
> whether the signaling protocol should support cooperation of oracles in
> addition to querying of oracle. Is there a need for such cooperation?
>
I think that the cooperation is important and probably that the
difficulties in the design are a matter of politic instead of technique
(business relationship).

Damien Saucez

> -s
>
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Stanislav Shalunov wrote:
>
>> On Jul 11, 2008, at 1:20 AM, Enrico Marocco wrote:
>>> Vijay and I have put together a first draft of the charter, trying to
>>> capture how people on this list think an IETF working group should
>>> address the ALTO problem. It is available at the following link:
>>> http://alto.tilab.com/docs/charter.txt
>>
>> Thank you for putting together the charter well enough ahead of the BoF
>> that
>> we have time to discuss it.
>>
>>
>> The general problem of overlay routing and how to best expose
>> information for
>> it is big and hard.
>>
>> The problem of caching, on the other hand, is well-defined, easily
>> scoped,
>> and easy to agree on.  Cache tracker location is a pure and simple
>> engineering problem.  Routing information exposure has a substantial
>> research
>> component.
>>
>> This charter does not let the possible WG solve the easy problem -- in
>> fact,
>> it does not even contain the word "cache".  Instead, it proposes a
>> particular
>> solution (oracle) for the more complicated routing information exposure
>> problem, before the problem has even been scoped.
>>
>> Further, the chartered oracle location service is of exactly the same
>> nature
>> and complexity as the non-chartered cache tracker location service.
>>
>> --
>> Stanislav Shalunov
>> http://shlang.com
>>
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