Beacon in AG 2.0

[Ivan R. Judson]

No problem, thanks for getting back to me!

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitch Kutzko [mailto:mitch at ncsa.uiuc.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 1:02 PM
> To: judson at mcs.anl.gov
> Cc: NLANR Multicast Beacon
> Subject: Re: Beacon in AG 2.0
> 
> 
> At 01:14 PM 1/30/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> > 
> > Hey Mitch,
> > 
> > I chatted with you a bit at SC02 about the beacon, some 
> ideas we have 
> > and our plans for AG 2.0. This email is hopefully going to 
> kick start 
> > a discussion that ends in us finding a way to incorporate 
> some version 
> > of the beacon in the AG 2.0 software release.  This is 
> prompted by the 
> > fact that we're going to alpha next week and we have 
> promised beacon 
> > like functionality as a 'core' part of AG2.0. It's my fault 
> this has 
> > taken so long to get to you, sorry about that.
> > 
> > Anyhow, what we're thinking we'd like to see for a 
> "monitor" (you'll 
> > see why I'm using this name instead of beacon in a minute, I hope):
> > 
> > - a peer to peer service (ie no centralized server)
> > 	We think the way to replicate the current functionality 
> would be to 
> > have each beacon peer connect to all other beacon peers 
> forming a full 
> > TCP mesh.  This sounds crazy if you're considering the 
> beacon the way 
> > it's used now; but we're talking about moving to a model where you 
> > only monitor the connectivity among the users in the same virtual 
> > venue, which scopes this mesh to a reasonable size, for now :).
> > 
> > - the ability to give it a set of addresses to monitor
> > 	We want to monitor connectivity on all media layers, plus the 
> > traditional beacon layer for "base" connectivity. This gives us a 
> > richer set of information about connectivity.
> > 
> > - RTCP monitoring, data over RTP
> > 	This would make the monitor traffic look like any other 
> media stream 
> > to the AG, which would make it more integrated (we could actually 
> > record and playback beacon data from our voyager server :-).
> > 
> > - the ability to log this data locally.
> > 
> > If you have any questions or thoughts feel free to drop 
> me/us email. 
> > I'd love to hear back from you so we can figure out how to 
> move ahead.
> > 
> > Hope things are going well with you,
> 
> Hey, Ivan -- Good to hear from you!
> 
> Tony and I will need to talk about this, and he's off at the 
> Joint Techs meeting this week, so it'll be sometime next week 
> before we can get back to you.
> 
> Hope life is treating you well, too....
> 
> Take care!
> 
> Mitch
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