RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-27 Thread Yu-Shun Wang
Hi Vidya, Other usages will be considered as extensions to the charter once the work for the initial services has been completed. I think we should delete the sentence above. While it may seem redundant, I don't see anything wrong with that. It just means we may have a narrow

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-23 Thread Yu-Shun Wang
Hi Vidya, Comments inline. (I've only preserved the points I have comments on. Others are fine with me.) Thanks, yushun -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Narayanan, Vidya Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:51 PM -Original

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-23 Thread Narayanan, Vidya
Hi Yushun, snip Add: Peer selection is also a problem that has many different applications in p2p systems - e.g., identifying the best peer to download content from, identifying the best super peer to contact in a system, using the best relay for NAT traversal, identifying the

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-22 Thread Nicholas Weaver
Hey, stupid thought... Could you do proximity based on who's your DNS resolver? Do a few name lookups: one to register YOU as using YOUR DNS resolver to the remote coordinator, and one to get who are other peers using the same resolver? An ugly, UGLY hack, but it might be interesting to

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-22 Thread Stanislav Shalunov
On Oct 13, 2008, at 5:23 AM, Pekka Savola wrote: I believe this work could be useful and would provide an improvement over existing p2p usage and traffic management. I also believe that an ALTO WG should be formed and would like to contribute to a solutions draft. The current requirements

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-20 Thread Vijay K. Gurbani
Narayanan, Vidya wrote: With respect to process, I think this one takes the cake among abominations. Having been at the IETF long enough and having participated in several BoFs, I'm quite familiar with RFC2418 and the process. Here we have an effort that started with a closed/gated workshop

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-20 Thread toby.moncaster
October 2008 18:23 To: Narayanan, Vidya Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) Narayanan, Vidya wrote: With respect to process, I think this one takes the cake among abominations. Having been at the IETF long enough

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-20 Thread Laird Popkin
] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ietf@ietf.org Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 1:23:09 PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York Subject: Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) Narayanan, Vidya wrote: With respect to process, I think this one takes the cake among abominations. Having been

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-19 Thread Enrico Marocco
Narayanan, Vidya wrote: With respect to process, I think this one takes the cake among abominations. Having been at the IETF long enough and having participated in several BoFs, I'm quite familiar with RFC2418 and the process. Here we have an effort that started with a closed/gated

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-17 Thread Woundy, Richard
Of Narayanan, Vidya Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:48 PM To: Lisa Dusseault; Vijay K. Gurbani Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) Lisa, There's plenty of work to do in a). My recommendation based on estimation

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-17 Thread Narayanan, Vidya
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org Subject: RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) Vidya, This would be a big mistake on our part. b) is not a research problem and it is very much related to the same problem being solved in ALTO. Personally, I can see

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-17 Thread Narayanan, Vidya
-Original Message- From: Vijay K. Gurbani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 2:32 PM To: Narayanan, Vidya Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) Narayanan, Vidya wrote

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-16 Thread Laird Popkin
) America/New_York Subject: Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Vijay K. Gurbani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Narayanan, Vidya wrote: Peer selection is important to ISPs from a network utilization perspective and to peers

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-16 Thread Das, Saumitra
Citing one of the responses from Vijay on Oct 13 For instance, it is not ALTO that gets to decide which peer is hosting which content and what the contributions of that peer to the overlay are. However, it is ALTO's job to provide information to a querying peer allowing it to determine wisely

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-15 Thread Ye WANG
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Nicholas Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 14, 2008, at 7:40 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: FYI, there's at least one more proposal in this space: the Ono stuff from Northwestern (http://www.aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/projects/Ono.html). There was a paper

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-15 Thread Philip Levis
On Oct 14, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Ye WANG wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Nicholas Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 14, 2008, at 7:40 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: FYI, there's at least one more proposal in this space: the Ono stuff from Northwestern

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-15 Thread Song Haibin
-Original Message- From: Laird Popkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:48 PM To: Song Haibin Subject: Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) I'd like to second this, and also make sure that the relationship between ALTO

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-15 Thread Vijay K. Gurbani
Narayanan, Vidya wrote: Hi Vijay, I am not at all talking about reinventing what BitTorrent can do or even remotely about any actual p2p application itself. I am only talking about peer selection. However, I think there is a critical difference between what I view as contributing to peer

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-15 Thread Lisa Dusseault
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Vijay K. Gurbani [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Narayanan, Vidya wrote: Peer selection is important to ISPs from a network utilization perspective and to peers themselves from a performance perspective. That automatically makes peer selection a function of multiple

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-15 Thread Narayanan, Vidya
Lisa, There's plenty of work to do in a). My recommendation based on estimation of appropriate scope as well as an estimation of the consensus here, would be to do that first -- to have a charter that is scoped to (a). Then the possibilities for (b) include working in the P2P research

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-14 Thread Lars Eggert
On 2008-10-11, at 4:27, ext Enrico Marocco wrote: Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: It's difficult to write a charter without actually designing the solution. This is an interesting opinion. May I translate that to mean that there is already a solution in the minds of the people who wrote the

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-14 Thread Laird Popkin
: [EMAIL PROTECTED], IESG IESG [EMAIL PROTECTED], ietf@ietf.org Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:29:30 AM (GMT-0500) America/New_York Subject: Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) Hi Vijay, Narayanan, Vidya wrote: communications. In fact, all that is important

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-14 Thread Karl Auerbach
Lars Eggert wrote: FYI, there's at least one more proposal in this space: the Ono stuff from Northwestern (http://www.aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/projects/Ono.html). There was a paper at SIGCOMM this year, and their system has the interesting feature that it simply freeloads of Akamai's DNS

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-14 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On Oct 14, 2008, at 7:40 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: FYI, there's at least one more proposal in this space: the Ono stuff from Northwestern (http://www.aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/projects/Ono.html ). There was a paper at SIGCOMM this year, and their system has the interesting feature that it

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-14 Thread Song Haibin
Hi Vijay, Narayanan, Vidya wrote: communications. In fact, all that is important in this context is that the overlay acts as a rendezvous for sharing such information. I think the disconnect we may be having is that you view ALTO as a peer description protocol; it is not. Other protocols

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-14 Thread Narayanan, Vidya
-Original Message- From: Martin Stiemerling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 8:03 AM To: Narayanan, Vidya; Vijay K. Gurbani Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; IESG IESG; ietf@ietf.org Subject: RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) Hi Vidja

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-14 Thread Narayanan, Vidya
- From: Vijay K. Gurbani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 8:50 AM To: Narayanan, Vidya Cc: IESG IESG; ietf@ietf.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) Vidya: Thank you for your response and your time

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-13 Thread Vijay K. Gurbani
Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: Hi Enrico, Vijay, Thank you for the summary of what transpired after the Dublin meeting. I appreciate you taking the time. Lakshminath: No problem. Thank you for your time and effort on this. My reading at the BoF was that there were some concerns about this work

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-13 Thread Vijay K. Gurbani
Narayanan, Vidya wrote: I am surprised to see that ALTO is being proposed for a WG after the last BoF concluded with no consensus whatsoever. I think a second BoF is more appropriate than a WG on the topic at this time. That said, I do see the need for this work, although I have some

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-13 Thread Laird Popkin
, October 10, 2008 3:21:02 PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York Subject: Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) Lakshminath and Vidya, Vijay, Enrico and Stefano have said what I was going to say (e.g. below) -- as sponsoring AD for this charter I've been following the WG

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-13 Thread Vijay K. Gurbani
Marshall Eubanks wrote: I support this moving forward. My reading of the room in Dublin was that there was serious support for this and certainly a critical mass to move forward. Marshall: Thank you for your review. More inline. Some comments in the charter below. This document clearly

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-13 Thread Martin Stiemerling
Hi Vidja, all, I believe that the charter is narrow and broad enough to cover the topic of ALTO, i.e., the charter is not limiting the solution space. However, when reading your comments, it sounds that you have a very specific solution in mind which is probably not covered by the current

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-13 Thread Jan Seedorf
two cents ... - Jan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lakshminath Dondeti Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:10 AM To: Lisa Dusseault Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; IESG IESG; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-13 Thread Vijay K. Gurbani
Vidya: Thank you for your response and your time in helping define the work. More inline. Narayanan, Vidya wrote: When we consider ALTO as a distributed service, there may not necessarily be a host that specifically resolves the ALTO queries. For instance, consider the case where ALTO is a

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-12 Thread Narayanan, Vidya
: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) Narayanan, Vidya wrote: I am surprised to see that ALTO is being proposed for a WG after the last BoF concluded with no consensus whatsoever. I think a second BoF is more appropriate than a WG on the topic at this time. That said, I do see

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-10 Thread Narayanan, Vidya
; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) On 10/9/2008 6:36 PM, Richard Barnes wrote: On the contrary, I perceived pretty strong agreement at the BoF that the ALTO problem, as expressed in the documents and presentations

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-10 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
Hi Enrico, Vijay, Thank you for the summary of what transpired after the Dublin meeting. I appreciate you taking the time. My reading at the BoF was that there were some concerns about this work being done in haste without clearly understanding what it is that we want to do and what it is

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-10 Thread Enrico Marocco
Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: The minutes (http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/08jul/minutes/alto.txt) say this: +++ Many people agreed that this is important work for the IETF, also some (less) people hummed against. Hum was inconclusive - some of the no hums were (in Jon's words)

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-10 Thread stefano previdi
: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) Subject: Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) Contrary to what some people seem to have interpreted my email to mean, I did actually say that the work is needed. I was noting the lack of consensus

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-10 Thread Philip Levis
On Oct 9, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Richard Barnes wrote: On the contrary, I perceived pretty strong agreement at the BoF that the ALTO problem, as expressed in the documents and presentations, as an important one to solve. There was some disagreement about solutions, but there seemed to be

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-10 Thread Lisa Dusseault
Lakshminath and Vidya, Vijay, Enrico and Stefano have said what I was going to say (e.g. below) -- as sponsoring AD for this charter I've been following the WG discussion, working with the rest of the IESG, and talking to people to confirm that there's better consensus on the list, even if there

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-10 Thread Alissa Cooper
I agree with the sentiment that this work is too important to not move forward. While feelings at the BoF were mixed, the work done since the BoF has been substantial, particularly in the area of narrowing the charter's scope. The ALTO work as it has been put forth in the current charter

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-10 Thread Narayanan, Vidya
Marshall makes some excellent points. Some additional thoughts on a few of his observations. snip Some comments in the charter below. This document clearly needs some more work. As a overall comment, I think it is premature to discuss ALTO servers and would keep the charter focused on

RE: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-10 Thread Narayanan, Vidya
@ietf.org Subject: Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto) Lakshminath and Vidya, Vijay, Enrico and Stefano have said what I was going to say (e.g. below) -- as sponsoring AD for this charter I've been following the WG discussion, working with the rest of the IESG

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-10 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Dear Vijay; On Oct 10, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Vijay K. Gurbani wrote: Marshall Eubanks wrote: I support this moving forward. My reading of the room in Dublin was that there was serious support for this and certainly a critical mass to move forward. Marshall: Thank you for your review. More

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-10 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
On 10/10/2008 12:21 PM, Lisa Dusseault wrote: Lakshminath and Vidya, Vijay, Enrico and Stefano have said what I was going to say (e.g. below) -- as sponsoring AD for this charter I've been following the WG discussion, working with the rest of the IESG, and talking to people to confirm that

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-10 Thread Enrico Marocco
Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: It's difficult to write a charter without actually designing the solution. This is an interesting opinion. May I translate that to mean that there is already a solution in the minds of the people who wrote the charter? Nope. Who has been following the p2pi list

Re: [p2pi] WG Review: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (alto)

2008-10-10 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
Thanks for the clarification Enrico :). best, Lakshminath On 10/10/2008 6:27 PM, Enrico Marocco wrote: Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: It's difficult to write a charter without actually designing the solution. This is an interesting opinion. May I translate that to mean that there is already a