@misc{rfc6029,
    series =    {Request for Comments},
    number =    6029,
    howpublished =  {RFC 6029},
    publisher = {RFC Editor},
    doi =       {10.17487/RFC6029},
    url =       {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6029},
    author =    {Enrico Marocco and Marco Tomsu and Volker Hilt and Ivica Rimac and Vijay K. Gurbani},
    title =     {{A Survey on Research on the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Problem}},
    pagetotal = 19,
    year =      2010,
    month =     oct,
    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.},
}