[Ietf-not43] oss implementation release

[Andrew Newton]

Rick Wesson wrote:
> 
> my question is if the query for a contact must be distributed to all
> servers then some servers with few registrations/contacts will be doing
> alot of processing to respond with a negative result.
> 
> I feel that queries for contacts will be a burdon on the servers with few
> contacts. When we have requirements that require all participiants to
> provision equal bandwith and cpu for processing even when they know they
> will rarely have a positive result to return.
> 
> We need to discuss the requirement on support of searches for objects that
> require the client to query every participating server where no
> authortaive index exists.

Ok.  I understand the concern now.

The requirement is that the protocol be capable of distributing queries. 
  Which service operators participate in the query distribution is a 
matter of policy.

In addition, there is nothing preventing additional measures where 
queries are distributed in a more intelligent manner vs. a shotgun 
approach (i.e. index hints).

-andy