[alto] New draft on joint exposure of network and compute information

[Jordi Ros Giralt <[e-mail]>]

Dear CATS and ALTO WG mailing list members,

We submitted a new draft on joint exposure of network and compute information for service placement and selection: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rcr-opsawg-operational-compute-metrics/


Joint Exposure of Network and Compute Information for Infrastructure-Aware Service DeploymentJoint Exposure of Network and Compute Information for Infrastructure-Aware Service Deployment
This draft focuses on the problem of exposing both network and compute information to the service provider/application to support service placement and selection decisions. ALTO provides an interface for network information exposure to the service provider/application; thus, an approach is to leverage and extend it with compute metrics. CATS also needs to develop compute metrics to support traffic steering decisions. The common ground is in these compute metrics, which could be reused across the various use cases (e.g., consumed by the network as in CATS or consumed by the application as in ALTO).

This draft also aims at providing a framework for continuing the discussion initiated during IETF 117 regarding the presentation "Compute-aware metrics: CATS working with ALTO": https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/slides-117-alto-compute-aware-metrics-cats-working-with-alto/

We would like to seek feedback from both working groups on developing compute metrics that can be reused for different use cases, to avoid duplicated work and increase the effectiveness of future standards.

Thanks,
Jordi