@techreport{ppsp-gabrijelcic-ecs-01, number = {draft-ppsp-gabrijelcic-ecs-01}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ppsp-gabrijelcic-ecs/01/}, author = {Dusan Gabrijelcic}, title = {{Enhanced Closed Swarm protocol}}, pagetotal = 38, year = 2013, month = jun, day = 1, abstract = {The Enhanced Closed Swarm (ECS) protocol is a distributed access control mechanism suitable for usage in Peer-to-Peer content delivery systems. The protocol provides coarse or fine grained authorization of peers participating in content distribution. As a result, only authorized peers are allowed to communicate in a swarm. The protocol also provides data confidentiality, integrity and origin authentication for application data exchanged among peers. The protocol is simple but flexible enough to enable a range of usage scenarios. In addition to the ECS protocol, this document also describes its application in the IETF PPSPP.}, }