A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. 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: ietf-alto@skiesel.de, mls.ietf@gmail.com, ietf@nico-schwan.de, michael.scharf@alcatel-lucent.com, haibin.song@huawei.com 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. STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet Standards Track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the Official Internet Protocol Standards (https://www.rfc-editor.org/standards) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce https://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/search For downloading RFCs, see https://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