Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

[Lars Eggert <[e-mail]>]

On 2008-10-11, at 4:27, ext Enrico Marocco wrote:
> Lakshminath Dondeti wrote:
>>> It's difficult to write a charter without actually designing the
>>> solution.
>>
>> This is an interesting opinion.  May I translate that to mean that  
>> there
>> is already a solution in the minds of the people who wrote the  
>> charter?
>
> Nope. Who has been following the p2pi list for the last five months
> probably knows that there are three different approaches (solutions?)
> floating around: the "sorting oracle" (described in a SIGCOMM paper
> authored by folks from TU-Berlin, a variant of which is IDIPS), P4P
> (soon to be published as I-D and, IIRC, described in another SIGCOMM
> paper), and Stanislav's proposal (discussed in Dublin and on the list:
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/p2pi/current/msg00508.html). Who
> wrote the charter had all those approaches clear in mind and took
> special care that none of them got ruled out.

FYI, there's at least one more proposal in this space: the Ono stuff  
from Northwestern (http://www.aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/projects/Ono.html 
). There was a paper at SIGCOMM this year, and their system has the  
interesting feature that it simply freeloads of Akamai's DNS entries  
in order to determine who's close to whom. No "ALTO boxes" needed.

Lars
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