Hi, Kai:
Thanks for your comments and input to this charter proposal, please see my rely 
inline below.

发件人: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
发送时间: 2021年5月4日 20:50
收件人: Qin Wu <[email protected]>
抄送: IETF ALTO <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Zaheduzzaman Sarker 
<[email protected]>
主题: Re: [alto] WG Review: ALTO Charter Update

Hi Qin and all,

Thanks for sharing the proposal. I just have one comment on the milestones and 
deliverables:

The last bullet mentioned that "The objective of this discussion will be to 
determine a small set of use cases that have strong support and a realistic 
chance of implementation and deployment.". However, the output of this bullet 
does not seem to be included in the milestones and deliverables.

[Qin]:Good Catch, Adrian also raised the similar issue.
I suggest we change the first sentence of the 1st milestone to

Conduct a survey of working group participants and the wider community to 
discover ALTO implementation, deployment experience, and future use cases that 
have strong support and realistic chance of implementation and deployment.

[Qin]: As I replied to Adrian, I think it will be more clear to separate 
existing implementation experience documentation and new use case and solution 
documentation.
I think we can add one more milestone to address your comment.


By the way, the end of the 2nd milestone should be "configuration and 
management of ALTO servers", right?

[Qin]: Good, your propose change looks good to me.


Best,
Kai

2021-04-24 00:05:46"Qin Wu" <[email protected]><mailto:>wrote:

Dear Martin and working group,



Thank you for the useful rechartering discussions on the mailing list and at 
IETF-110.



I have listened to the people who say that further protocol work needs to be 
based on strong deployment needs, and I also hear very many different use cases 
proposed. I think we need more discussion and understanding to work out which 
use cases are high priority and which are more research-based.



This makes me think that we need a small short-term recharter to allow us to 
work on immediate issues (protocol maintenance, operational support) while we 
discuss and investigate the best uses cases for further work.



So I propose this as our new charter with input from our AD.

=========================================================================================

Application-Layer Traffic Optimization Working Group Charter Update

The ALTO working group was established in 2008 to devise a request/response 
protocol to allow a host to benefit from a server that is more cognizant of the 
network infrastructure than the host is.

The working group has developed an HTTP-based protocol and recent work has 
reported proof-of-concepts of ALTO based solutions supporting applications such 
as content distribution networks (CDN).

To support current and future deployments of ALTO, the working group is now 
chartered for the following activities:

o Provide a place to collect implementation deployment and experience. It is 
hoped that implementer and deployers of ALTO will report their experiences on 
the mailing list, and the working group will track implementation and 
deployment reports on a wiki or in an Internet-Draft.

o Perform protocol maintenance for the existing published protocol. It is 
anticipated that questions and issues will arise concerning the existing 
protocol specifications: The working group will develop and publish updates as 
necessary to resolve any interoperability, performance, operational, or 
security, or privacy problems that arise. The working group will also help 
resolve any errata reports that are raised. This work item might be addressed 
by discussions and reviews, or might require additional RFCs.

o Develop operational support tools for the ALTO protocol. Based on experience 
from deployments, the advice in RFC 7971<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7971>, 
and considering the latest opinions and techniques from the Operations and 
Management Area, the working group will develop tools to configure, operate, 
and manage the ALTO protocol and networks that use ALTO. This may include YANG 
models and OAM mechanisms. The working group may also update RFC 
7971<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7971> in the light of new experience and 
protocol features that were added to ALTO after that RFC was published.

o Support for modern transport protocols. When work on ALTO began, the protocol 
was supported using HTTP version 1. Since then, the IETF has developed HTTP/2 
and HTTP/3. The working group will develop any necessary protocol extensions 
and guidance to support the use of ALTO over HTTP/2 and HTTP/3.

o Future use cases. The working group will provide a forum to discuss possible 
future use cases. The objective of this discussion will be to determine a small 
set of use cases that have strong support and a realistic chance of 
implementation and deployment. The working group will not develop protocol 
extensions for these use cases until it has been re-chartered specifically for 
that purpose.

At the conclusion of the OAM and HTTP2/3 deliverables, plus completion of any 
adopted drafts emerging from the other work items, the working group will close 
or recharter.

Milestones and Deliverables:

  *   Conduct a survey of working group participants and the wider community to 
discover ALTO implementation and deployment experience. Record the results in a 
publicly visible wiki.
  *   Develop and standardize at least one OAM mechanisms to support ALTO 
including a YANG model for configuration and management of YANG servers.
  *   Perform an analysis of ALTO over HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 and publish a support 
document. Develop any necessary protocol modifications.
====================================================================================
Please comment here on this draft charter proposal.

-Qin (on behalf of chairs)

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