This version of the draft includes a new Manageability Considerations section.
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:24 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 : ALTO Protocol > Author(s) : Richard Alimi > Reinaldo Penno > Y. Richard Yang > Filename : draft-ietf-alto-protocol-13.txt > Pages : 76 > Date : 2012-09-07 > > Abstract: > Networking applications today already have access to a great amount > of Inter-Provider network topology information. For example, views > of the Internet routing table are easily available at looking glass > servers and entirely practical to be downloaded by clients. What is > missing is knowledge of the underlying network topology from the ISP > or Content Provider (henceforth referred as Provider) point of view. > In other words, what a Provider prefers in terms of traffic > optimization -- and a way to distribute it. > > The ALTO Service provides network information (e.g., basic network > location structure, preferences of network paths) with the goal of > modifying network resource consumption patterns while maintaining or > improving application performance. The basic information of ALTO is > based on abstract maps of a network. These maps provide a simplified > view, yet enough information about a network for applications to > effectively utilize them. Additional services are built on top the > maps. > > This document describes a protocol implementing the ALTO Service. > Although the ALTO service would primarily be provided by the network > operator (e.g., an ISP), content providers and third parties could > also operate this service. Applications that could use this service > are those that have a choice in connection endpoints. Examples of > such applications are peer-to-peer (P2P) and content delivery > networks. > > > > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-alto-protocol > > There's also a htmlized version available at: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-alto-protocol-13 > > A diff from the previous version is available at: > http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-alto-protocol-13 > > > Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: > ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ > > _______________________________________________ > alto mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
