An Architecture for Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES)
RFC 3835
| Document | Type | RFC - Informational (August 2004; No errata) | |
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| Authors | Hilarie Orman , Robin Chen , Reinaldo Penno , Markus Hofmann , Abbie Barbir | ||
| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
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Network Working Group A. Barbir
Request for Comments: 3835 R. Penno
Category: Informational Nortel Networks
R. Chen
AT&T Labs
M. Hofmann
Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies
H. Orman
Purple Streak Development
August 2004
An Architecture for Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES)
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004).
Abstract
This memo defines an architecture that enables the creation of an
application service in which a data provider, a data consumer, and
zero or more application entities cooperatively implement a data
stream service.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2 . The Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. OPES Entities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1.1. Data Dispatcher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2. OPES Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.3. OPES Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.4. Callout Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.5. Tracing Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3. Security and Privacy Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1. Trust Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2. Establishing Trust and Service Authorization . . . . . . 11
3.3. Callout Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.4. Privacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.5. End-to-end Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4. IAB Architectural and Policy Considerations for OPES . . . . . 12
4.1. IAB consideration (2.1) One-party Consent. . . . . . . . 12
4.2. IAB consideration (2.2) IP-Layer Communications. . . . . 13
4.3. IAB consideration (3.1 and 3.2) Notification . . . . . . 13
4.4. IAB consideration (3.3) Non-Blocking . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.5. IAB consideration (4.1) URI Resolution . . . . . . . . . 13
4.6. IAB consideration (4.2) Reference Validity . . . . . . . 13
4.7. IAB consideration (4.3) Application Addressing
Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.8. IAB consideration (5.1) Privacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7. Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
9. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10. Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
11. Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1. Introduction
When supplying a data stream service between a provider and a
consumer, the need to provision the use of other application
entities, in addition to the provider and consumer, may arise. For
example, some party may wish to customize a data stream as a service
to a consumer. The customization step might be based on the
customer's resource availability (e.g., display capabilities).
In some cases it may be beneficial to provide a customization service
at a network location between the provider and consumer host rather
than at one of these endpoints. For certain services performed on
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behalf of the end-user, this may be the only option of service
deployment. In this case, zero or more additional application
entities may participate in the data stream service. There are many
possible provisioning scenarios which make a data stream service
attractive. The OPES Use Cases and Deployment Scenarios [1] document
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