Network Working Group                                       T. Dreibholz
Internet-Draft                              University of Duisburg-Essen
Intended status: Standards Track                            June 6, 2007
Expires: December 8, 2007


                   Handle Resolution Option for ASAP
               draft-dreibholz-rserpool-asap-hropt-00.txt

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Abstract

   This document describes the Handle Resolution option for the ASAP
   protocol.















































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1.  Introduction

   Reliable Server Pooling defines protocols for providing highly
   available services.  The Aggregate Server Access Protocol (ASAP)
   provides session management and server selection for applications.
   Upon request for a server selection -- denoted as handle resolution
   -- an ENRP server returns a list of selected PE identities.  The
   number of PE identities to be returned is not specified by RSerPool.
   Furthermore the ASAP protocol does not contain a way for letting the
   requesting instance specify it.

   As shown in [7], [9], selecting too many entries does not make sense
   for the application, but on the other hand also result in significant
   processing and network overhead.  Furthermore, it has been shown in
   [8] that the number of requested elements is usually 1, but there are
   application cases where more PE identities have to be returned.  That
   is, there should be a possibility to specify the number of requested
   PE items upon a handle resolution.

1.1.  Scope

   The Handle Resolution option defined in this draft simply defines an
   option to let the PU-side specify the desired number of PE identities
   from the ENRP server.

1.2.  Terminology

   The terms are commonly identified in related work and can be found in
   the Aggregate Server Access Protocol and Endpoint Handlespace
   Redundancy Protocol Common Parameters document ietf-rserpool-common-
   param [4]




















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2.  Handle Resolution Option

2.1.  Definition

   The Handle Resolution MAY be used once in an ASAP Handle Resolution
   message sent from a PU to an ENRP server.  It is defined as follows.

       0                   1                   2                   3
       0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |        Type = 0x803f         |            Length=8            |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |                             Items                             |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Items: 32 bits (unsigned integer)

   Contains the number of PE identities to be selected by the ENRP
   server.  Setting it to 0xffffffff denotes to obtain as many PE
   identities as possible.  A setting of 0 denotes to use the ENRP
   server's default value; this default MUST be used if there is no
   Handle Resolution option given.  The ENRP server SHOULD try to fulfil
   the request for the given number of items.

   Note, that the high-order bits of the type field are set to 10, which
   means "skip this parameter and continue processing" if this parameter
   type is not supported by the ENRP server.  This allows for
   interoperability with old implementations.

2.2.  Reference Implementation

   The reference implementation based on the RSerPool prototype rsplib
   can be found at [6].


















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3.  References

3.1.  Normative References

   [1]   Tuexen, M., "Architecture for Reliable Server Pooling",
         draft-ietf-rserpool-arch-12 (work in progress), November 2006.

   [2]   Stewart, R., "Aggregate Server Access Protocol (ASAP)",
         draft-ietf-rserpool-asap-15 (work in progress), January 2007.

   [3]   Stewart, R., "Endpoint Handlespace Redundancy Protocol (ENRP)",
         draft-ietf-rserpool-enrp-15 (work in progress), January 2007.

   [4]   Stewart, R., "Aggregate Server Access Protocol (ASAP) and
         Endpoint Handlespace Redundancy  Protocol (ENRP) Parameters",
         draft-ietf-rserpool-common-param-11 (work in progress),
         October 2006.

   [5]   Tuexen, M. and T. Dreibholz, "Reliable Server Pooling
         Policies", draft-ietf-rserpool-policies-04 (work in progress),
         March 2007.

3.2.  Informative References

   [6]   Dreibholz, T., "Thomas Dreibholz's RSerPool Page",
         URL: http://tdrwww.exp-math.uni-essen.de/dreibholz/rserpool/.

   [7]   Dreibholz, T., "Reliable Server Pooling -- Evaluation,
         Optimization and Extension of a Novel IETF Architecture", Ph.D.
         Thesis University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Economics,
         Institute for Computer Science and Business Information
         Systems, URL: http://duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/servlets/
         DerivateServlet/Derivate-16326/Dre2006-final.pdf, March 2007.

   [8]   Dreibholz, T. and E. Rathgeb, "On the Performance of Reliable
         Server Pooling Systems", Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Local
         Computer Networks Conference, November 2005.

   [9]   Dreibholz, T. and E. Rathgeb, "Implementing the Reliable Server
         Pooling Framework", Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International
         Conference on Telecommunications, June 2005.

   [10]  Dreibholz, T. and E. Rathgeb, "An Application Demonstration of
         the Reliable Server Pooling Framework", Proceedings of the 24th
         IEEE Infocom, March 2005.






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Author's Address

   Thomas Dreibholz
   University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Experimental Mathematics
   Ellernstrasse 29
   45326 Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen
   Germany

   Phone: +49-201-1837637
   Fax:   +49-201-1837673
   Email: dreibh@exp-math.uni-essen.de
   URI:   http://www.exp-math.uni-essen.de/~dreibh/







































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