Re: [RAI] Draft on P2P architectures

["Dan Wing" <dwing at cisco.com>]

Thanks for incorporating those changes,
-d
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gonzalo Camarillo [mailto:Gonzalo.Camarillo at ericsson.com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 1:15 AM
> To: Dan Wing
> Cc: rai at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [RAI] Draft on P2P architectures
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> thanks for your comments. Answers inline:
> 
> Dan Wing wrote:
> >> the IAB has just submitted the following draft:
> >>
> >> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-p2p-archs-00.txt
> >>
> >> Comments are welcome.
> > 
> > Please add Gnutella, BitTorrent, and Skype to section 2.  I
> > noticed BitTorrent isn't mentioned in the document at all.
> 
> I have added BitTorrent to Section 2. However, I would not 
> like to have 
> too many examples in that section. Since Skype and Gnutella 
> were already 
> mentioned somewhere else in the document, I have not added new 
> subsections with them in Section 2.
> 
> > You might also mention Octoshape's 
> don't-look-under-the-covers P2P video
> > streaming application,
> > 
> http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/02/cnn-p2p-video-streamin
> g-tech-raises-qu
> > estions.ars
> > 
> 
> I have added references to Octoshape.
> 
> > 
> > end of Section 5.3,
> >      traditional SIP, which relays on a rendezvous server 
> infrastructure.
> >                             ^^^^^^
> >                             relies
> 
> Fixed.
> 
> > Section 6,
> >    we have discussed a number of
> >    perfectly legitimate applications that have been 
> implemented using
> >    P2P.
> > 
> > I would drop "perfectly" from that sentence.  (Same phrase 
> is in Section 1).
> > (Are there imperfectly legitimate applications?)
> 
> I would like to stress the fact that there are *fully* legitimate. If 
> you have a suggestion to give more emphasis to the sentence without 
> using "perfectly", let me know.
> 
> > To your list of legitimate uses of p2p technology in 
> Section 6, you might also
> > consider adding the "unofficial release" by Nine Inch Nails 
> of 400Gb of
> > time-synchronized multiple-camera HD video footage from 
> three concerts using
> > BitTorrent, http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?52,378166.  
> The trackers are on
> > nin.com's own website.
> 
> Since this is yet another example of content distribution using 
> bittorrent, I do not think we need to add it to the document... but 
> thanks for the reference anyway. It is interesting!
> 
> Thanks for your comments,
> 
> Gonzalo