Subject: RFC 7286 on Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Server Discovery

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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:46:15 -0800 (PST)

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        RFC 7286

        Title:      Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Server 
                    Discovery 
        Author:     S. Kiesel, M. Stiemerling,
                    N. Schwan, M. Scharf,
                    H. Song
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       November 2014
        Mailbox:    [email-masked], 
                    [email-masked], 
                    [email-masked],
                    [email-masked], 
                    [email-masked]
        Pages:      15
        Characters: 32830
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-alto-server-discovery-10.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7286.txt

The goal of Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) is to
provide guidance to applications that have to select one or several
hosts from a set of candidates capable of providing a desired
resource.  ALTO is realized by a client-server protocol.  Before an
ALTO client can ask for guidance, it needs to discover one or more
ALTO servers.

This document specifies a procedure for resource-consumer-initiated
ALTO server discovery, which can be used if the ALTO client is
embedded in the resource consumer.

This document is a product of the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard.

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