> See also the other meeting for balance: > > http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Net-Neutrality-Meeting-at-Stanford-Toda > y-93665 > > Henry > > > > From: "IESG Secretary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: April 21, 2008 5:00:01 AM PDT > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: P2P Infrastructure Workshop Announcement, May 28, 2008 > > > > The Real-time Applications & Infrastructure (RAI) Area Directors, Jon > Peterson and Cullen Jennings, would like to announce an IETF workshop on > P2P Infrastructure to be held on May 28, 2008 at 50 Vassar St, Room > 34-101 on the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA USA. > > Several large ISPs have encountered issues with P2P traffic. The > transfer of static, delay-tolerant data between nodes on the Internet is > a well-understood problem, but traditional management of fairness at the > transport level has largely been circumvented by applications designed > to achieve the best end-user transfer rates. This results, at peak > times, in networks running near absolute capacity, and in which all > traffic incurs delays; the applications that bear the brunt of this > additional latency are real-time applications like VoIP and Internet > gaming. This has led to need for further discussion of the proper > approaches to P2P application development, and infrastructure management > in environments where P2P is commonly used. This workshop intends to > discover where additional IETF standards work is needed, or existing > work might be reapplied, to alleviate these difficulties. In particular, > the workshop will draw on the experiences of Comcast and BitTorrent, > representatives of both of whom will present their perspectives on the > problem space. > > Example solution discussions might include, but are not limited to: > deployment of application servers or caches to reduce network load; new > rendez-vous mechanisms to optimize P2P network topology; enabling > applications to signal their bandwidth needs (and priority or lack > thereof) to networks; enabling networks to signal bandwidth constraints > to elastic and inelastic applications; and, new approaches to fairness > that are coupled with incentives for applications. Contributions from > subject matter experts in the problem and solution space are > welcome. The primary outcome should be a direction for one or more IETF > efforts exploring the best practices for addressing these challenges. > > The organizers would like to stress that this is a technical workshop > exploring engineering issues and practices. The public policy > implications of P2P applications are not in the scope of this workshop. > > Position papers are requested from all attendees by May 9. Contact the > RAI ADs for a waiver if it is inappropriate for you to submit a position > paper. These should constitute one to five pages on the problem or > solution space of P2P architectures, with a particular emphasis on areas > that the IETF should address or revisit. Position papers will be made > publicly available. On the basis of the position papers, a number of > invited speakers will be asked to present at the workshop. A final > agenda with timeslots will be published by May 16th. Potential attendees > for whom it is not appropriate to supply a position paper may contact > the RAI ADs for a waiver. > > Evaluation of the position papers will be performed with the assistance > of a program committee consisting of the RAI ADs, Lars Eggert (Transport > AD), Danny Weitzner (MIT), John Morris (CDT), and Dave Clark (MIT). > > Further information about position paper submission procedures are > forthcoming. Interested parties are advised to subscribe to the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list for discussion and announcements related to > the workshop. Additional information will be available at > http://www3.tools.ietf.org/area/rai/trac/wiki/PeerToPeerInfrastructure. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > P2PSIP mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
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