Subject: [alto] FW: I-D Action:draft-stiemerling-alto-deployments-03.txt

From: "Martin Stiemerling" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:54:40 +0200

FYI.

The draft is refresher with minimal changes. Looking forward to the discussions.

  Martin

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> 	Title           : ALTO Deployment Considerations
> 	Author(s)       : M. Stiemerling, S. Kiesel
> 	Filename        : draft-stiemerling-alto-deployments-03.txt
> 	Pages           : 21
> 	Date            : 2010-06-09
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> Many Internet applications are used to access resources, such as
> pieces of information or server processes, which are available in
> several equivalent replicas on different hosts.  This includes, but
> is not limited to, peer-to-peer file sharing applications.  The goal
> of Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) is to provide
> guidance to these applications, which have to select one or several
> hosts from a set of candidates, that are able to provide a desired
> resource.  The protocol is under specification in the ALTO working
> group.  However, this document discusses the deployment
> considerations of ALTO and also some preliminary security
> considerations.
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> 03.txt
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