Wouldn't it make sense to "liaison" also with the ALTO and (perhaps) the TEAS working group?
In these working groups, quite a number of technologies may already exist to solve this sort of problem. Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: tsv-area [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian > Trammell (IETF) > Sent: Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2017 08:22 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Proposed Path Aware Networking RG > > Greetings, all, > > We'll be having a first meeting of the proposed Path Aware Networking > (PAN) RG at IETF 99 in Prague next week, 13:30 Wednesday in Congress Hall > 3. Since bringing path awareness to the endpoint has been the focus, at least > in part, of a couple of running TSV working groups (MPTCP, TAPS), this RG > seems to be of general interest to the transport area. Olivier Bonaventure > will give a review and overview of research to date in this space, and Adrian > Perrig will present a fully path-aware Internet architecture, as an > illustration > of what is possible when path-awareness is promoted to a first-order goal. > > From our proposed charter > (https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/panrg/about): > > The Internet architecture assumes a division between the end-to-end > functionality of the transport layer and the properties of the path between > the endpoints. The path is assumed to be invisible, homogeneous, singular, > with dynamics solely determined by the connectivity of the endpoints and > the Internet control plane. Endpoints have very little information about the > paths over which their traffic is carried, and no control at all beyond the > destination address. > > Increased diversity in access networks, and ubiquitous mobile connectivity, > have made this architecture's assumptions about paths less tenable. > Multipath protocols taking advantage of this mobile connectivity begin to > show us a way forward, though: if endpoints cannot control the path, at least > they can determine the properties of the path by choosing among paths > available to them. > > This research group aims to support research in bringing path awareness to > transport and application layer protocols, and to bring research in this space > to the attention of the Internet engineering and protocol design community. > > The scope of work within the RG includes, but is not strictly limited to: > > - communication and discovery of information about the properties of a path > on local networks and in internetworks, exploration of trust and risk models > associated with this information, and algorithms for path selection at > endpoints based on this information. > > - algorithms for making transport-layer scheduling decisions based on > information about path properties. > > - algorithms for reconciling path selection at endpoints with widely deployed > routing protocols and network operations best practices. > > The research group's scope overlaps with existing IETF and IRTF efforts, and > will collaborate with groups chartered to work on multipath transport > protocols (MPTCP, QUIC, TSVWG), congestion control in multiply-connected > environments (ICCRG), and alternate routing architectures (e.g. LISP), and is > related to the questions raised in the multiple recent BoF sessions that have > addressed path awareness and multiply-connected networks (e.g. SPUD, > PLUS, BANANA). > > he PAN(P)RG intends to meet at each IETF meeting until a determination is > made whether or not to charter it. Afterward, the RG intends to meet at 1-3 > IETF meetings per year, and hold one workshop per year, colocated with a > related academic conference. >
