@techreport{kiesel-alto-3pdisc-05, number = {draft-kiesel-alto-3pdisc-05}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kiesel-alto-3pdisc/05/}, author = {Sebastian Kiesel and Martin Stiemerling and Nico Schwan and Michael Scharf and Marco Tomsu and Song Yongchao}, title = {{ALTO Server Discovery Protocol}}, pagetotal = 27, year = 2011, month = mar, day = 14, abstract = {The goal of Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) is to provide guidance to applications, which have to select one or several hosts from a set of candidates that are able to provide a desired resource. Entities seeking guidance need to discover and possibly select an ALTO server to ask. This is called ALTO server discovery. This memo describes an ALTO server discovery mechanism based on several alternative mechanisms that are applicable in a diverse set of ALTO deployments.}, }