Dear all, This is a good progress with impressive thorough reviews from our AD, iesg and WG chairs; it also benefited greatly from collaboration with many others.
Although we see that this design will be stable for a while, we are also working on a http/2 based design to take advantage of http/2 features. Some details will be posted soon. Cheers, Richard On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 9:45 AM The IESG <[email protected]> wrote: > The IESG has approved the following document: > - 'ALTO Incremental Updates Using Server-Sent Events (SSE)' > (draft-ietf-alto-incr-update-sse-22.txt) as Proposed Standard > > This document is the product of the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization > Working Group. > > The IESG contact persons are Mirja Kühlewind and Magnus Westerlund. > > A URL of this Internet Draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-alto-incr-update-sse/ > > > > > > Technical Summary > > This document allows the base ALTO protocol (RFC 7785) to fetch resources > that have changed in a more optimized manner. > > In base ALTO, a client must periodically re-fetch resources that have > changed. Some resources served by an ALTO server (network maps, for > instance) > may be quite large, while the changes to the resources may be fairly > localized, > and can be served in an optimal manner (sending diffs, for instance) > instead > of having the client fetch the entire updated resource. > > This document adds the capability of sending localized diffs in ALTO. > > Working Group Summary > > ALTO incremental updates is a well known work to the ALTO working group. > The initial work on this started in October 2014; the working group > adopted > the work in May 2015 [1], after which it has gone through about 19 > revisions > to the current version. The work is fairly mature and the design > tradeoffs > in coming up with an equitable solution to the problem described above are > well documented in the draft. > > Document Quality > > There is one known implementation of this draft, this implementation is > related to a paper titled "Steering Hyper-Giant's Traffic at Scale", > published in the proceedings of ACM CoNEXT 2019 [9]. This implementation > implements the JSON merge patch feature, with the general JSON patch being > on their roadmap [10]. > > Personnel > > The document shepherd is Vijay K. Gurbani. The responsible Area Director is > Mirja Kühlewind. > > -- Richard
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