@techreport{moore-sonar-03,
    number =    {draft-moore-sonar-03},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-moore-sonar/03/},
    author =    {Keith Moore},
    title =     {{SONAR - A Network Proximity Service  Version 1}},
    pagetotal = 14,
    year =      1998,
    month =     aug,
    day =       5,
    abstract =  {SONAR is a service which, when presented with a list of Internet Protocol addresses, attempts to order that list according to the proximity from the SONAR server to each address. Given multiple locations for a network accessible resource, SONAR is designed to help networked applications make a reasonable choice between those alternatives. This memo describes the SONAR protocol as well as an experimental implementation of the SONAR service. While the name 'SONAR' is intended as a pun on the 'ping' utility that uses ICMP echo requests to verify network connectivity, the SONAR service does not specify use of any particular means of estimating network proximity. To the contrary, the design of SONAR assumes that the best means of estimating network proximity will change over time and perhaps from one network location to another. The SONAR protocol is intended to provide a stable interface for applications that need to measure network proximity, thus allowing proximity measurement algorithms to evolve separately from those applications.},
}