Re: [alto] PID Properties in ALTO

Reinaldo Penno <rpenno@juniper.net> Tue, 25 October 2011 19:37 UTC

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From: Reinaldo Penno <rpenno@juniper.net>
To: Richard Alimi <rich@velvetsea.net>, Robert Varga <robert.varga@pantheon.sk>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:36:09 -0400
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As one of the proponents I like the idea but an extension is fine.


On 10/24/11 10:10 AM, "Richard Alimi" <rich@velvetsea.net> wrote:

> I'm fine with leaving this as an extension, I agree it falls outside
> of the core set of functionality and could easily be done as an
> extension. Objections to that?
> 
> Rich
> 
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Robert Varga <robert.varga@pantheon.sk>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I agree we should support it. I am just not sure we need it the base
>> protocol, though, as it can easily be specified as an extension.
>> 
>> Bye,
>> Robert
>> 
>> On 05/27/11 18:48, Richard Alimi wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> Okay, third and final thread for discussion today :)  Another proposed
>>> extension to the ALTO protocol has been to associate properties (like
>>> we currently have with Endpoints) with PIDs.
>>> 
>>> A proposed use case in draft-penno-alto-cdn was to indicate what types
>>> of endpoints lived within a single PID. A more general mechanism to
>>> support this would be to allow properties to be associated with a PID
>>> as whole. In one light, this could be seen as an efficient way to
>>> query for the properties of all endpoints within a PID (in which
>>> membership in the PID determines the value of the property). It could
>>> also be used to attach some semantic meaning to a PID (instead of
>>> being an opaque identifier) in particular deployments.
>>> 
>>> One way to support this would be to provide an additional "PID
>>> Property" service, with a similar structure to the Endpoint Property
>>> Service. Basically, it would amount to defining a registry, allowing
>>> an ALTO Server to indicate its supported properties via capabilities,
>>> defining encodings for the request and response, etc.
>>> 
>>> Thoughts about supporting this?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rich
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>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Robert Varga
>> Pantheon Technologies, s.r.o.
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>> 831 05 Bratislava
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