@techreport{shore-midcom-protos-00,
    number =    {draft-shore-midcom-protos-00},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-shore-midcom-protos/00/},
    author =    {Melinda Shore},
    title =     {{Talking to Stuff In The Network: Middlebox Communication Models}},
    pagetotal = 11,
    year =      2003,
    month =     oct,
    day =       21,
    abstract =  {It is increasingly common for applications to want to influence the behavior of equipment in the network, in violation of various tenets underpinning the the design of IP. A number of different mechanisms and architectures have been proposed, and this very drafty draft is a hoped to be a start at discussing some of the issues related to protocols used for middlebox communication.},
}