DECoupled Application Data Enroute (DECADE) Problem Statement
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) H. Song
Request for Comments: 6646 N. Zong
Category: Informational Huawei
ISSN: 2070-1721 Y. Yang
Yale University
R. Alimi
Google
July 2012
DECoupled Application Data Enroute (DECADE) Problem Statement
Abstract
Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications have become widely used on the
Internet today and make up a large portion of the traffic in many
networks. In P2P applications, one technique for reducing the
transit and uplink P2P traffic is to introduce storage capabilities
within the network. Traditional caches (e.g., P2P and Web caches)
provide such storage, but they can be complex (e.g., P2P caches need
to explicitly support individual P2P application protocols), and do
not allow users to manage resource usage policies for content in the
cache. This document discusses the introduction of in-network
storage for P2P applications and shows the need for a standard
protocol for accessing this storage.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6646.
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RFC 6646 DECADE Problem Statement July 2012
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
2. Terminology and Concepts ........................................3
3. The Problems ....................................................4
3.1. P2P Infrastructural Stress and Inefficiency ................4
3.2. P2P Cache: A Complex Type of In-Network Storage ............5
3.3. Ineffective Integration of P2P Applications ................6
4. Usage Scenarios .................................................6
4.1. BitTorrent .................................................6
4.2. Content Publisher ..........................................7
5. Security Considerations .........................................8
5.1. Denial-of-Service Attacks ..................................8
5.2. Copyright and Legal Issues .................................8
5.3. Traffic Analysis ...........................................8
5.4. Modification of Information ................................8
5.5. Masquerade .................................................9
5.6. Disclosure .................................................9
5.7. Message Stream Modification ................................9
6. Acknowledgments .................................................9
7. Informative References .........................................10
1. Introduction
Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, including both P2P streaming and P2P
file-sharing applications, make up a large fraction of the traffic in
many Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks today. One way to
reduce bandwidth usage by P2P applications is to introduce storage
capabilities in networks. Allowing P2P applications to store and
retrieve data from inside networks can reduce traffic on the last-
mile uplink, as well as on backbone and transit links.
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