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From: "Y. Yang" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Monday, October 28, 2013 8:50 PM
To: Cisco Employee <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: Greg Bernstein 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
"[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [alto] extension questions and comments


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Reinaldo Penno (repenno) 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I also think seedorf-lmap is a very interesting draft.


Share the opinion. It is quite interesting indeed! At a first quick look, it 
defines another set of metrics 
(http://data.fcc.gov/download/measuring-broadband-america/2013/Technical-Appendix-feb-2013.pdf
 Page 26, which the te-metrics doc may need to look into as well).

It looks like that the draft is still evolving. I can see several possibilities 
in defining network maps: one is the geo-location already well defined in the 
draft; Table 5 of the Technical-Appendix-feb-2013.pdf suggests that many maps 
can be constructed. This is interesting and also shows that we will need to 
think more on how to handle a wealth of such information. Good work!

But what I'm most interested in a way to make maps writable.  I want an app to 
be be able to write to a map therefore influencing its own cost and attributes.

In the particular fcc MBA context, a concrete example is to change the 
subscriber tier (end point property). But since you mentioned map, I guess you 
are saying e2e (e.g.,  more narrowly bounded app flow).

[RP] hummm…Not necessarily e2e. If I write to a map and change the cost of 
reaching  the IP address associated with my application,  I need to be put in a 
different PID.  I believe the same is true for endpoint properties if you want 
to actually influence the cost map.

In addition to flow meta data, Lingli pointed out OneAPI in the context of 
mobile devices as another related work: 
http://www.gsma.com/oneapi/faq/restful-api-specifications

[RP] My impression is that a lot of the oneapi is already encapsulated by 
Android and iPhone SDKs.  There is also http://cordova.apache.org which IMO is 
extremely interesting. Of course, you know, Javascript is like the Borg.

Richard


From: Greg Bernstein 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Monday, October 28, 2013 10:48 AM
To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [alto] extension questions and comments

Hi ALTO extension folks, as I'll not be making it up to Vancouver :-( , here 
are some questions/comments.
These comments/questions are from the perspective of creating an ALTO topology 
service (suitable for large bandwidth and SDN applications).

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-scharf-alto-vpn-service-01
ALTO for VPNs: Way back when we started talking about "topology" like 
extensions. The concept of ALTO for "controlled or partially controlled" 
environments was floated. It seems that a VPN type of service would be the 
exemplar of such an environment and hence pave the way for "restricted 
environment" use of ALTO.  Questions:  Are there specific additions to the REST 
API to offer this some kind of security, i.e., to keep others from gaining 
information about a customers VPN? Or would a general approach to security of 
this interface be specified?
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-song-alto-overlay-routing-00
Extensions for Multiple path choices: In our large bandwidth work we considered 
both path representations as well as graph representations. This proposal would 
extend ALTO by reporting costs on multiple possible paths between a source and 
destination. Hence could also work for the large bandwidth case with 
appropriate extensions.  Both in this draft and the VPN draft, we may have the 
situation where the client uses ALTO information to not only make a choice but 
then relay that choice back to the network via some type of "reservation 
interface".
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wu-alto-te-metrics-00
Defines costs metrics based on OSPF-TE. We would need for such metrics for the 
"general" topology service.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-roome-alto-pid-properties-00
PID properties -- Comments: This is a step on the way to a "NID" that we would 
use in a graph topology (multi-switch) representation, i.e., where we'd define 
a Node with Id and properties.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-seedorf-lmap-alto-02, 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-seedorf-cdni-fci-alto-00
Very interesting applications. Any interest from the authors of these drafts in 
bandwidth/topology type information?

Best Regards

Greg B.


On 10/22/2013 1:02 PM, Vijay K. Gurbani wrote:
Folks: As you prepare slides, etc. for your ALTO extensions, please
consult the latest institutional memory on how to taxonomize or classify
the extensions; this was captured rather succinctly and successfully
during the Berlin IETF side meeting [1].

Enrico and I will be looking to see how we can group the various
extensions under this ontology.  It will make it tractable to understand
and appreciate the extensions as we grapple with them.

Thanks,

[1] http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/87/minutes/minutes-87-alto#ad-hoc

- vijay



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