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

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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.

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Document ID
RFC7286
Published
November 2014
Authors
S. Kiesel; M. Stiemerling; N. Schwan; M. Scharf; H. Song
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
ops
Pages
15
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