[alto] [Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-randriamasy-alto-cost-schedule-00.txt]

[Sabine Randriamasy <[e-mail]>]

Hi all,

We have submitted a new draft entitled ALTO Cost Schedule and proposing 
extensions on Cost Value specifications. 

The idea is to provide cost values as a set of values each defined on a 
given time period, together with appropriate description attributes.
The main motivation is that current ALTO Costs and their modes provide 
static values, assuming to report on information that does not change 
rapidly. However the ALTO use cases now extend to CDNs, Data centers and 
non real time applications that deal with information changing rapidly. 
If this information can be predicted, non-real time applications or 
management systems using ALTO could take advantage of scheduling their 
access to content or resources. 

Another motivation of scheduled costs is the need to regulate the 
traffic through incentives: if ALTO provides an abstracted or aggregated 
form of dynamic information that is centrally managed (and readable), it 
can help preserving network stability while keeping network state 
information confidential.  

This draft has also been advertised on the altoex mailing-list but we would 
appreciate your feedback on the use cases (relevance, whether other ones 
are applicable), whether it makes sense to extend ALTO to support time-dependent 
arrays of cost values.  
  

Thanks,

Sabine



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Sujet : 	New Version Notification for 
draft-randriamasy-alto-cost-schedule-00.txt
Date : 	Tue, 6 Mar 2012 01:53:25 +0100
De : 	[e-mail] <[e-mail]>
Pour : 	RANDRIAMASY, SABINE (SABINE) 
<[e-mail]>
Copie à : 	Schwan, Nico (Nico) <[e-mail]>



A new version of I-D, draft-randriamasy-alto-cost-schedule-00.txt has been successfully submitted by Sabine Randriamasy and posted to the IETF repository.

Filename:	 draft-randriamasy-alto-cost-schedule
Revision:	 00
Title:		 ALTO Cost Schedule
Creation date:	 2012-03-05
WG ID:		 Individual Submission
Number of pages: 13

Abstract:
   The goal of Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) is to
   bridge the gap between network and applications by provisioning
   network related information.  This allows applications to make
   informed decisions, for example when selecting a target host from a
   set of candidates.  The ALTO problem statement [RFC5693] considers
   typical applications as file sharing, real-time communication and
   live streaming peer-to-peer networks.  Recently other use cases
   focused on Content Distribution Networks and Data Centers have
   emerged [draft-jenkins-alto-cdn-use-cases-01].

   The present draft proposes to extend the cost information provided by
   the ALTO protocol.  The purpose is to broaden the decision
   possibilities of applications to not only decide &#39;where&#39; to connect
   to, but also &#39;when&#39; to connect.  This is useful to applications that
   have a degree of freedom on when to schedule data transfers, such as
   non-instantaneous data replication between data centers.  The draft
   therefore specifies a new cost mode, called the &quot;schedule&quot; mode.  In
   this mode the ALTO server offers cost maps that contain link ratings
   that are valid for a given timeframe (e.g. hourly) for a period of
   time (e.g. a day).  Besides the functional time-shift enhancement
   providing multi-timeframe cost values the extansion also allows the
   saving of a number of ALTO transactions and thus resources on the
   ALTO server and clients.


                                                                                  


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