{
  "number": 6029,
  "title": "A Survey on Research on the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Problem",
  "authors": [
    "I. Rimac",
    "V. Hilt",
    "M. Tomsu",
    "V. Gurbani",
    "E. Marocco"
  ],
  "published": "2010-10",
  "status": "Informational",
  "stream": "IRTF",
  "pages": 19,
  "formats": [
    "TXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "abstract": "A significant part of the Internet traffic today is generated by peer-to-peer (P2P) applications used originally for file sharing, and more recently for real-time communications and live media streaming. Such applications discover a route to each other through an overlay network with little knowledge of the underlying network topology. As a result, they may choose peers based on information deduced from empirical measurements, which can lead to suboptimal choices. This document, a product of the P2P Research Group, presents a survey of existing literature on discovering and using network topology information for Application-Layer Traffic Optimization. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.",
  "keywords": [
    "Peer-to-Peer",
    "topology estimation",
    "Internet coordinate system"
  ],
  "draft": "draft-irtf-p2prg-alto-survey-05",
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC6029",
  "errata_url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc6029",
  "urls": {
    "html": "https://rfc.dk/rfc6029/",
    "text": "https://rfc.dk/rfc6029.txt",
    "rfc_editor": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6029",
    "datatracker": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6029/"
  },
  "text_modified": "2010-10-23T00:24:49Z"
}