A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6029 Title: A Survey on Research on the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Problem Author: I. Rimac, V. Hilt, M. Tomsu, V. Gurbani, E. Marocco Status: Informational Stream: IRTF Date: October 2010 Mailbox: rimac@bell-labs.com, volkerh@bell-labs.com, marco.tomsu@alcatel-lucent.com, vkg@bell-labs.com, enrico.marocco@telecomitalia.it Pages: 19 Characters: 48615 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-irtf-p2prg-alto-survey-05.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6029.txt A significant part of the Internet traffic today is generated by peer-to-peer (P2P) applications used originally for file sharing, and more recently for real-time communications and live media streaming. Such applications discover a route to each other through an overlay network with little knowledge of the underlying network topology. As a result, they may choose peers based on information deduced from empirical measurements, which can lead to suboptimal choices. This document, a product of the P2P Research Group, presents a survey of existing literature on discovering and using network topology information for Application-Layer Traffic Optimization. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the IRTF. INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce