Re: [alto] RFC 7971 on Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Deployment Considerations

Authors: Congratulations!  This has been a long time overdue, but Jan
and I are glad that the RFC is finally out.  Awesome!

Cheers,

On 10/06/2016 07:34 PM, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org wrote:
> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
>
>
>         RFC 7971
>
>         Title:      Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO)
>                     Deployment Considerations
>         Author:     M. Stiemerling,
>                     S. Kiesel,
>                     M. Scharf,
>                     H. Seidel,
>                     S. Previdi
>         Status:     Informational
>         Stream:     IETF
>         Date:       October 2016
>         Mailbox:    mls.ietf@gmail.com,
>                     ietf-alto@skiesel.de,
>                     michael.scharf@nokia.com,
>                     hseidel@benocs.com,
>                     sprevidi@cisco.com
>         Pages:      77
>         Characters: 188372
>         Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
>
>         I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-alto-deployments-16.txt
>
>         URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7971
>
>         DOI:        http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7971
>
> Many Internet applications are used to access resources such as
> pieces of information or server processes that are available in
> several equivalent replicas on different hosts.  This includes, but
> is not limited to, peer-to-peer file sharing applications.  The goal
> of Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) is to provide
> guidance to applications that have to select one or several hosts
> from a set of candidates capable of providing a desired resource.
> This memo discusses deployment-related issues of ALTO.  It addresses
> different use cases of ALTO such as peer-to-peer file sharing and
> Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and presents corresponding examples.
> The document also includes recommendations for network administrators
> and application designers planning to deploy ALTO, such as
> recommendations on how to generate ALTO map information.
>
> This document is a product of the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization Working Group of the IETF.
>
>
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