A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : ALTO Extension: General Cost Types Author : Y. Richard Yang Filename : draft-yang-alto-general-cost-type-00.txt Pages : 6 Date : 2015-10-19 Abstract: The Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Service has defined both the endpoint cost service (ECS) and cost maps to provide information to applications about network path properties (e.g., routingcost) from a set of source network points to a set of destination network points, where each network point can be a single endpoint (in ECS) or a PID which represents a set of endpoints (in a cost map). Considering, conceptually, both ECS and cost map as returning a matrix, indexed by sources and destinations as row and column, the current ALTO protocol [RFC7285] allows the elements in the matrix to be only scalar (i.e., numerical or ordinal). This, however, is limiting in many use cases. This document discuss multiple use cases where scalar-elements can be limitations. It then defines new cost types to allow general cost types, such as vectors to represent use cases such path vectors. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yang-alto-general-cost-type/ There's also a htmlized version available at: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yang-alto-general-cost-type-00 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt