Subject: Re: [alto] ***SPAM*** 14.182 (5) 答复: Is it possible to incorporate "server notification" mechanism into current ALTO protocol

From: Lars Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:56:44 +0300

Hi,

On 2010-5-21, at 4:05, wangaijun wrote:
> We have submitted the updated version of our draft about notification
> mechanism at http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-sun-alto-notification-02.txt,
> any comments are welcomed.

I find this proposal to be problematic. ALTO is not a signaling protocol, and extending it into a generic network-to-client notification mechanism is well beyond the chartered work. ALTO is meant to improve the initial peer selection.

<add standard rant about using ALTO for congestion notification here>

Lars