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The latter, right now.

>
> If the latter, I don't see a big difference between a proxy, and
> opening up the ports on the firewall.  

It seem to me there is a humongous difference between opening a port in my 
firewall that allows new connections to be established to a machine inside 
the firewall, and me being able to connect to a machine outside  the firewall 
that's going to NAT my connection anyway.  Specifically, I'm thinking about 
security.

> If the problem is that you have multiple clients and want them all to
> be able to participate, I'm really not sure if the protocol provides
> enough info to the proxy to determine which client to connect to.  The
> proxy would need to know which client the incoming request is for, and
> I don't know if the protocol provides enough information to map to a
> particular client.

I'm not insisting that it use the existing protocol, though that would be 
nice. :)


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