Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) Problem Statement, Use Cases, and Requirements
draft-ietf-cats-usecases-requirements-10

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Subject: Document Action: 'Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) Problem Statement, Use Cases, and Requirements' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-cats-usecases-requirements-10.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS) Problem Statement, Use Cases,
   and Requirements'
  (draft-ietf-cats-usecases-requirements-10.txt) as Informational RFC

This document is the product of the Computing-Aware Traffic Steering Working
Group.

The IESG contact persons are Gunter Van de Velde, Jim Guichard and Ketan
Talaulikar.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-cats-usecases-requirements/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   Distributed computing is a computing pattern that service providers
   can follow and use to achieve better service response time and
   optimized energy consumption.  In such a distributed computing
   environment, compute intensive and delay sensitive services can be
   improved by utilizing computing resources hosted in various computing
   facilities.  Ideally, compute services are balanced across servers
   and network resources to enable higher throughput and lower response
   time.  To achieve this, the choice of server and network resources
   should consider metrics that are oriented towards compute
   capabilities and resources instead of simply dispatching the service
   requests in a static way or optimizing solely on connectivity
   metrics.  The process of selecting servers or service instance
   locations, and of directing traffic to them on chosen network
   resources is called "Computing-Aware Traffic Steering" (CATS).

   This document provides the problem statement and the typical
   scenarios for CATS, which shows the necessity of considering more
   factors when steering traffic to the appropriate computing resource
   to better meet the customer's expectations.

Working Group Summary

   Was there anything in the WG process that is worth noting?
   For example, was there controversy about particular points 
   or were there decisions where the consensus was
   particularly rough? 

Document Quality

   Are there existing implementations of the protocol?  Have a 
   significant number of vendors indicated their plan to
   implement the specification?  Are there any reviewers that
   merit special mention as having done a thorough review,
   e.g., one that resulted in important changes or a
   conclusion that the document had no substantive issues?  If
   there was a MIB Doctor, Media Type, or other Expert Review,
   what was its course (briefly)?  In the case of a Media Type
   Review, on what date was the request posted?

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Daniel Huang. The Responsible
   Area Director is Jim Guichard.

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