[midcom] Fw: WG Review: Open Pluggable Edge Services (opes)

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Melinda

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Subject: WG Review: Open Pluggable Edge Services (opes)

> 
> A new IETF working group has been proposed in the Applications Area.
> The IESG has not made any determination as yet. 
> 
> The following Description was submitted, and is provided for
> informational purposes only:
> 
> Open Pluggable Edge Services (opes)
> -----------------------------------
>  
> Current Status: Proposed Working Group
> 
> Description of Working Group:
>  
> The Open Plugable Edge Service (OPES) WG primary task is to define a
> protocol to be used to extend participating transit intermediaries to
> incorporate services executed on application data transported by HTTP. 
> The protocol provides a framework for integrating arbitrary services 
> into arbitrary intermediaries. Intermediaries may employ either local
> or remote ("callout") servers to perform a service, and as a result,
> the data may be diverted temporarily over a closed loop pathway 
> different from the transit pathway. Intermediary services provided in 
> this way are not transparent: Either the content requestor or provider 
> will be aware that a tranformation has been performed.
> 
> As part of the development of this protocol the WG will produce an 
> analysis of the security impliciations of this architecture.
> 
> A secondary task for this WG is to enumerate the requirements for 
> management policies and associated administrative protocols that allow 
> these services to be specified and deployed.
> 
> The advantage of standardizing a protocol for this is that services can 
> be re-used across vendor products without modifying the transit 
> intermediaries or services.
> 
> The ICAP protocol already provides similar functionality and this WG
> may elect to use ICAP as a starting point for its work. However, the 
> working group is not obliged to retain any level of compatibility with 
> ICAP.
> 
> A number of existing Internet-Drafts will become WG documents:
> 
> Early Requirements document (expired but available on the web site):
>          draft-tomlinson-epsfw-00.txt
> 
> Updated iCAP Callout Server:
>          draft-elson-opes-icap-01.txt
> 
> A Rule Specification Language for Proxy Services:
>          draft-beck-opes-imrl-00.txt
> 
> OPES Network Taxonomy:
>          draft-erikson-opes-net-taxonomy-00.txt
> 
> OPES Architecture for Rule Processing and Service Execution:
>          draft-yang-opes-rule-processing-service-execution-00.txt
> 
> OMML: OPES Meta-data Markup Language:
>          draft-maciocco-opes-omml-00.txt
> 
> General Use Cases:
>          draft-beck-opes-esfnep-01.txt
>  
> 

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