A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 7069 Title: DECoupled Application Data Enroute (DECADE) Author: R. Alimi, A. Rahman, D. Kutscher, Y. Yang, H. Song, K. Pentikousis Status: Informational Stream: Independent Date: November 2013 Mailbox: ralimi@google.com, Akbar.Rahman@InterDigital.com, dirk.kutscher@neclab.eu, yry@cs.yale.edu, haibin.song@huawei.com, k.pentikousis@eict.de Pages: 35 Characters: 81867 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-alimi-decade-05.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7069.txt Content distribution applications, such as those employing peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies, are widely used on the Internet and make up a large portion of the traffic in many networks. Often, however, content distribution applications use network resources inefficiently. One way to improve efficiency is to introduce storage capabilities within the network and enable cooperation between end-host and in-network content distribution mechanisms. This is the capability provided by a DECoupled Application Data Enroute (DECADE) system, which is introduced in this document. DECADE enables applications to take advantage of in-network storage when distributing data objects as opposed to using solely end-to-end resources. This document presents the underlying principles and key functionalities of such a system and illustrates operation through a set of examples. 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/search/rfc_search.php 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