Re: [dc] Announcing the i2aex BoF

Hi Spencer,

Is this similar to Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) Model
and REST Interface over HTTP An Interface for Managing Cloud Infrastructure(
http://dmtf.org/standards/cloud)?

What is the trigger for this?!

Thanks for clarifying.

Best.

Bhumip

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Spencer Dawkins
<spencer@wonderhamster.org>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> David Harrington asked me to act as BoF Shepherd for the
> Infrastructure-to-application Information Exposure (i2aex) BoF, and I
> wanted to make sure that a broad community of interest was aware of this
> BoF, especially since the BoF is scheduled for Monday, Afternoon Session 1,
> at 1300 PM.
>
> Preliminary discussion has been going on for some time now on the
> altoext@ietf.org mailing list, mainly among people in some way involved
> in the standardization the ALTO protocol. In order to have a conversation
> that's as productive as possible in Paris, we would really like to invite
> people who are involved on different sides of the same problem to bring
> their perspective as well.
>
> Here's a short description, with the usual pointers. Follow-ups to
> altoext@ietf.org, please.
>
> The goal of the (non-WG-forming) BoF is to investigate infrastructure-
> to-application information exposure and communications requirements in
> fully controlled (e.g., data centers) or partially controlled
> environments (e.g. CDN). Existing mechanisms such as SNMP, IGP, BGP and
> other protocols that monitor and manage infrastructure may reveal much
> if not all of the possibly required information, but are typically only
> accessible to the operators of the network infrastructure. CDNs and data
> center applications have some requirements to operate over the Internet,
> possibly between administrative domains. On the other hand, the ALTO
> protocol was initially designed to address peer-to-peer application
> requirements, but was designed to be extensible and could be quite
> easily adapted to export the pieces of information that CDN and data
> center applications would benefit from.
>
> The BoF will thus primarily seek an answer to the following questions:
>
>  + do CDN and data center applications require (or benefit in a
>    significant way from) accessing to information that cannot be made
>    available through existing mechanisms in a practical way?
>
>  + is an extension to the ALTO protocol (or to any other protocol) a
>    viable way to address such requirements?
>
> Additional information about the topic is available on the BoF wiki
> entry: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/**bof/trac/#Transport<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/bof/trac/#Transport>
>
> The provisional agenda for the meeting is online at:
> http://www.ietf.org/**proceedings/83/agenda/agenda-**83-i2aex.txt<http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/83/agenda/agenda-83-i2aex.txt>
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