Hi, the following draft describes how to use ALTO for selecting an ALTO server. This sounds like a chicken&egg problem, but it has advantages in situations where the user seeks ALTO guidance from an ALTO operator who is not the operator of the access network.
While the proposed mechanism might need more work, I invite you to consider the problem described in the introduction section. Comments welcome. Thanks Sebastian ----- Forwarded message from [email protected] ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: I-D Action:draft-kiesel-alto-alto4alto-00.txt Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 01:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: [email protected] List-Id: Internet Draft Announcements only <i-d-announce.ietf.org> X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: No, score=-4.3 tests=AWL=2.021,BAYES_00=-2.312,LOC_ENVTO_IETF_SK=-0.01,LOC_IETF_LIST_ID =-2.01,LOC_IETF_SUBJ=-2.01 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Using ALTO for ALTO server selection Author(s) : S. Kiesel Filename : draft-kiesel-alto-alto4alto-00.txt Pages : 10 Date : 2010-07-05 The goal of Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) is to provide guidance to applications, which have to select one or several hosts from a set of candidates that are able to provide a desired resource. Entities seeking guidance need to discover and possibly select an ALTO server to ask. This document proposes an ALTO-based scheme to select an ALTO server that can give guidance to a given ALTO client. Unlike some other proposed ALTO discovery mechanisms, this solution works well if the client seeks guidance from a set of ALTO servers that are operated by an entity which is not the operator of the access network. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kiesel-alto-alto4alto-00.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft. _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
