Re: [alto] Agenda requests for IETF 80 - "Multi-Cost ALTO draft updates"

2011-03-15 Thread Sabine Randriamasy
Hi all, I have posted an updated version of the draft "Multi-Cost ALTO" presented at the Beijing ALTO WG meeting. You can find it at http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-randriamasy-alto-multi-cost-02.txt I have requested a slot of about 10 minutes to discuss on the topic "Multi-Cost ALTO draft up

Re: [alto] ALTO protocol: REST-ful vs. REST-like

2011-03-15 Thread Ben Niven-Jenkins
Enrico, Colleagues, Although I've been subscribed to the mailing list for some time I've only just started to find time to look at ALTO in any detail. On 14 Mar 2011, at 15:43, Enrico Marocco wrote: > Hi all, > > as the face-to-face meeting is approaching, the chairs would like the > working g

Re: [alto] New draft ""ALTO Network-to-Server and Server-to-Server APIs"

2011-03-15 Thread stefano previdi
Jan, the approach looks interesting to me. Obviously one may argue that the Network-to-Server API already exists (and it's called OSPF, ISIS and BGP) but probably something can be done in order to define an abstraction level of routing databases so to optimize both implementations and APIs (i.e.:

Re: [alto] ALTO protocol: REST-ful vs. REST-like

2011-03-15 Thread Jan Medved
Hi, as for restfulness, it certainly would be better if we could do service discovery, as that provides a more flexible way of extending the protocol. But care has to be taken to specify (and have the RFC require) relative services URLs, not absolute. Reason for that is that the ALTO server may be

Re: [alto] ALTO protocol: REST-ful vs. REST-like

2011-03-15 Thread Enrico Marocco
On 3/15/11 3:19 PM, Vijay K. Gurbani wrote: > On 03/15/2011 09:11 AM, Martin Stiemerling wrote: >> Hi Enrico, >> >> For people not that familiar with web technologies (like me ;) : >> What is a good source to understand what is REST-ful and REST-like? > > To paraphrase an oft-used cliché: "Go to t

Re: [alto] I-D Action:draft-ietf-alto-protocol-07.txt

2011-03-15 Thread Richard Alimi
Certainly. The major change was that we added endpoint address types. There is an additional subsection within "ALTO Types" documenting the data types. There are changes to the messages Network Map, Endpoint Property and Endpoint Cost Services to support this. The requirement for a network map cov

Re: [alto] ALTO protocol: REST-ful vs. REST-like

2011-03-15 Thread Vijay K. Gurbani
On 03/15/2011 09:11 AM, Martin Stiemerling wrote: Hi Enrico, For people not that familiar with web technologies (like me ;) : What is a good source to understand what is REST-ful and REST-like? To paraphrase an oft-used cliché: "Go to the source, Martin!" Roy Fielding's thesis (available at [

Re: [alto] ALTO protocol: REST-ful vs. REST-like

2011-03-15 Thread Martin Stiemerling
Hi Enrico, For people not that familiar with web technologies (like me ;) : What is a good source to understand what is REST-ful and REST-like? Thanks in advance Martin martin.stiemerl...@neclab.eu NEC Laboratories Europe - Network Research Division NEC Europe Limited | Registered Office:

[alto] FW: I-D Action:draft-kiesel-alto-3pdisc-05.txt

2011-03-15 Thread Martin Stiemerling
Dear all, This revision is a partial merger of the two drafts: - draft-kiesel-alto-3pdisc-04 - draft-song-alto-server-discovery-03 We have tried to address some of the comments we have received at the last IETF meeting. However, we looking forward to get comments from you by email **before** th

Re: [alto] I-D Action:draft-ietf-alto-protocol-07.txt

2011-03-15 Thread Martin Stiemerling
Can we get some information about what has been changed?? This would be much appreciated! Martin martin.stiemerl...@neclab.eu NEC Laboratories Europe - Network Research Division NEC Europe Limited | Registered Office: NEC House, 1 Victoria Road, London W3 6BL | Registered in England 2832014