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Re: [alto] Are ALTO costs always End to End?

"Vijay K. Gurbani" <vkg@bell-labs.com> Wed, 01 February 2012 16:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [alto] Are ALTO costs always End to End?
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On 02/01/2012 10:50 AM, Sebastian Kiesel wrote:
> Btw: which application needs to know the topology? If I remember
> correctly once upon a time our primary goal was assisting peer
> selection (i.e., I know that I can get the desired resource form IP
> address A, B, or C, so please ALTO service tell me which address I
> should give a connect()-try first). To that end, the 1xN vector would
> be enough.

Sebastian: There are other emerging uses of ALTO being discussed.  CDNs
and data centers are the two widely cited ones.  See [1] for more on
this.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-marocco-alto-next-00

Thanks,

- vijay
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