On 02/01/2012 10:50 AM, Sebastian Kiesel wrote:
Btw: which application needs to know the topology? If I remember correctly once upon a time our primary goal was assisting peer selection (i.e., I know that I can get the desired resource form IP address A, B, or C, so please ALTO service tell me which address I should give a connect()-try first). To that end, the 1xN vector would be enough.
Sebastian: There are other emerging uses of ALTO being discussed. CDNs and data centers are the two widely cited ones. See [1] for more on this. [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-marocco-alto-next-00 Thanks, - vijay -- Vijay K. Gurbani, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent 1960 Lucent Lane, Rm. 9C-533, Naperville, Illinois 60566 (USA) Email: vkg@{bell-labs.com,acm.org} / [email protected] Web: http://ect.bell-labs.com/who/vkg/ _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
