A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization
Working Group of the IETF.
Title : Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO)
Requirements
Author(s) : Sebastian Kiesel
Stefano Previdi
Martin Stiemerling
Richard Woundy
Yang Richard Yang
Filename : draft-ietf-alto-reqs-16.txt
Pages : 24
Date : 2012-06-15
Abstract:
Many Internet applications are used to access resources, such as
pieces of information or server processes that are available in
several equivalent replicas on different hosts. This includes, but
is not limited to, peer-to-peer file sharing applications. The goal
of Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) is to provide
guidance to applications that have to select one or several hosts
from a set of candidates capable of providing a desired resource.
This guidance shall be based on parameters that affect performance
and efficiency of the data transmission between the hosts, e.g., the
topological distance. The ultimate goal is to improve performance or
Quality of Experience in the application while reducing the
utilization of the underlying network infrastructure.
This document enumerates requirements for specifying, assessing, or
comparing protocols and implementations.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-alto-reqs
There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-alto-reqs-16
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http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-alto-reqs-16
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