1. Summary
Jan Seedorf is the document shepherd for draft-ietf-alto-multi-cost. Mirja
Kühlewind is the responsible Area Director.
The document itself has a long history, having started as a -00 document in the
ALTO WG as an individual draft in October 2010 (author: Sabine Randriamasy).
It transitioned to a WG document in May 2015 (after the ALTO WG had been
re-chartered to work on extensions to the original ALTO protocol as specified
in RFC 7285) (authors: Sabine Randriamasy, Wendy Roome, Nico Schwan).
The ALTO protocol as specified in RFC 7285 allows to only query results for one
single ALTO cost metric in a given ALTO request. draft-ietf-alto-multi-cost
defines a “new service that allows a client to retrieve several cost metrics
with one request, which is considerably more efficient”
[draft-ietf-alto-multi-cost-04]. This is clearly a very useful extension of the
ALTO protocol and covered in the current ALTO charter.
The working group is targeting this document as Standards Track, which is
appropriate as the document extends the ALTO protocol, specifying new formats
for allowed client requests (in JSON).
2. Review and Consensus
The document has been presented at multiple IETF meetings and discussed on the
mailing list. It is well-known in the ALTO WG and there is clear consensus to
standardise the proposed ALTO extension. A WGLC was issued on July 4, 2016.
During this WGLC a detailed review has been produced by Xin Wang, extensive
additional comments were provided by Richard Yang and Hans Seidel. The comments
raised have been addressed in the -03 version of draft-ietf-alto-multi-cost.
Last outstanding comments have been finally addressed in the latest -04
(September 2016) and -05 versions (February 2017).
In summary, there is clear support and consensus for draft-ietf-alto-multi-cost
in the ALTO WG, and it provides a very useful extension to the base ALTO
protocol. A WGLC has successfully been passed, and extensive reviews were
provided by various members of the WG and have all been addressed.
3. Intellectual Property
The shepherd confirms that each author has stated to him that to the best of
his/her (i.e. the author’s) knowledge, all IPR related to this document has
been disclosed.
There have been two IPR disclosures on this document (see
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2615/ and
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1628/). Both these IPR disclosures have been
posted on the ALTO mailing list. There was no discussion on these IPR
statements.
4. Other Points
This document does not introduce any IANA considerations and does not introduce
any privacy or security issues that are not already present in the ALTO
protocol.