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[ NNSquad ] Re: FW: P2P Infrastructure Workshop Announcement, May 28, 2008
Anyone from this list planning to participate? I know we obviously are (Comcast). Jason > -----Original Message----- > From: > nnsquad-bounces+jason_livingood=cable.comcast.com@nnsquad.org > [mailto:nnsquad-bounces+jason_livingood=cable.comcast.com@nnsq > uad.org] On Behalf Of Livingood, Jason > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 9:06 AM > To: nnsquad > Subject: [ NNSquad ] FW: P2P Infrastructure Workshop > Announcement, May 28,2008 > > Likely of interest to this list. Jon Peterson was one of the > presenters at the recent FCC meeting. > > Regards > Jason Livingood > > -----Original Message----- > From: ietf-announce-bounces@ietf.org > [mailto:ietf-announce-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of IESG Secretary > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 8:00 AM > To: ietf-announce@ietf.org > Cc: iesg@ietf.org > Subject: P2P Infrastructure Workshop Announcement, May 28, 2008 > > The Real-time Applications & Infrastructure (RAI) Area > Directors, Jon Peterson and Cullen Jennings, would like to > announce an IETF workshop on P2P Infrastructure to be held on > May 28, 2008 at 50 Vassar St, Room > 34-101 on the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA USA. > > Several large ISPs have encountered issues with P2P traffic. > The transfer of static, delay-tolerant data between nodes on > the Internet is a well-understood problem, but traditional > management of fairness at the transport level has largely > been circumvented by applications designed to achieve the > best end-user transfer rates. This results, at peak times, in > networks running near absolute capacity, and in which all > traffic incurs delays; the applications that bear the brunt > of this additional latency are real-time applications like > VoIP and Internet gaming. This has led to need for further > discussion of the proper approaches to P2P application > development, and infrastructure management in environments > where P2P is commonly used. This workshop intends to discover > where additional IETF standards work is needed, or existing > work might be reapplied, to alleviate these difficulties. In > particular, the workshop will draw on the experiences of > Comcast and BitTorrent, representatives of both of whom will > present their perspectives on the problem space. > > Example solution discussions might include, but are not limited to: > deployment of application servers or caches to reduce network > load; new rendez-vous mechanisms to optimize P2P network > topology; enabling applications to signal their bandwidth > needs (and priority or lack > thereof) to networks; enabling networks to signal bandwidth > constraints to elastic and inelastic applications; and, new > approaches to fairness that are coupled with incentives for > applications. Contributions from subject matter experts in > the problem and solution space are welcome. > The primary outcome should be a direction for one or more > IETF efforts exploring the best practices for addressing > these challenges. > > The organizers would like to stress that this is a technical > workshop exploring engineering issues and practices. The > public policy implications of P2P applications are not in the > scope of this workshop. > > Position papers are requested from all attendees by May 9. > Contact the RAI ADs for a waiver if it is inappropriate for > you to submit a position paper. These should constitute one > to five pages on the problem or solution space of P2P > architectures, with a particular emphasis on areas that the > IETF should address or revisit. Position papers will be made > publicly available. On the basis of the position papers, a > number of invited speakers will be asked to present at the > workshop. A final agenda with timeslots will be published by > May 16th. Potential attendees for whom it is not appropriate > to supply a position paper may contact the RAI ADs for a waiver. > > Evaluation of the position papers will be performed with the > assistance of a program committee consisting of the RAI ADs, > Lars Eggert (Transport AD), Danny Weitzner (MIT), John Morris > (CDT), and Dave Clark (MIT). > > Further information about position paper submission > procedures are forthcoming. Interested parties are advised to > subscribe to the p2pi@ietf.org mailing list for discussion > and announcements related to the workshop. Additional > information will be available at > http://www3.tools.ietf.org/area/rai/trac/wiki/PeerToPeerInfras > tructure. > _______________________________________________ > IETF-Announce mailing list > IETF-Announce@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce > >