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

+1 :)

  - Jan


On 07/10/16 14:46, Vijay K.Gurbani wrote:
> 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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> - vijay

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