> Le 25 juill. 2023 à 23:33, Tommy Pauly <tpa...@apple.com> a écrit : > > Hi Marc, > > To start — I have no objection to there being some mechanism to discover a > proxy using dns-sd / bonjour! If someone has a good use case for that, that > certainly is a possibility. > > I do think it would be a different use case than the one for this > network-provided proxy provisioning, however. A couple salient points to > consider: > - While the local router may be able to point you to the appropriate proxies > to use, the proxies themselves are likely not on the local link or multicast > area. Instead, they would likely be some infrastructure associated with the > network operator, deeper in the network. > - A dns-sd solution would allow many parties to advertise such capabilities > on the network. The case we’re concerned with here is knowing the one that > comes from a network operator, not other peers. > - While I can’t rule it out categorically, I’m not aware of many cases where > we’d be able to use multicast dns-sd on cellular carrier networks, which is > one of the main deployment targets here.
Thanks for the clarification. Helps understand better understand the use case. Still I think dns-sd could be an additional mechanism (but for typical networks (e.g. non cell), especially since dns-sd would be very straightforward and would not need provisioning infrastructure change. Thanks for the response. Marc. > > Thanks, > Tommy > >> On Jul 25, 2023, at 3:57 PM, Marc Blanchet <marc.blanc...@viagenie.ca> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> Saw your presentation yesterday at masque and now read your draft. Fine by >> the overall approach, but I was wondering if you have considered to use >> DNS-SD (aka Bonjour)? I could see a proxy on the local network advertising >> its proxy service and the client « finding » the proxy by the DNS-SD/Bonjour >> mechanism. Seems straightforward to me. Also enables multiple proxies to « >> offer » their service, so redundancy right out of the box. In other words, >> I’m looking at this as a service discovery not provisioning. I am surely >> missing something? >> >> Regards, Marc. >> >> -- >> Masque mailing list >> mas...@ietf.org >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/masque > _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list Int-area@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
