Reliable Server Pools BOF (rserpool) Friday, December 15 at 0900-1130 ================================ CHAIRS: Lyndon Ong (long@nortelnetworks.com) Maureen Stillman (maureen.stillman@nokia.com) DESCRIPTION: Reliable application service is critical to many different applications. Examples include call control, mobility location registers, and e-commerce websites. Reliability can be implemented using an application server pool, where multiple hosts support a single application with redundancy and/or load sharing. Existing server pooling mechanisms are typically proprietary and designed for specific applications. As a result they cannot be extended to heterogeneous environments and new applications. The Reliable Server Pooling effort will focus on standardizing a generalized mechanism to provide a client with reliable service(s) provided by an application server pool. The objective is to cleanly separate the application from the reliability mechanism and allow different types of applications to use a common reliability framework and protocols. Reading Material: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-tuexen-rserpo http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-tuexen-rserpool-reqts-00.txt http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-xie-rserpool- http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-xie-rserpool-asap-00.txt http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-xie-rserpool- http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-xie-rserpool-enrp-00.txt AGENDA: - Introduction (5 min.) Lyndon Ong - Presentation of Requirements (20 minutes) Speaker: Michael Tuexen - Discussion of Requirements (20 minutes) - Presentation of Architecture based on Scenarios (40 minutes) Examples to be presented are: - FTP: Randy Stewart - E-commerce: Michael Tuexen - Telephony: Lyndon Ong - IP Radio Access Networks (RAN): John Loughney - Discussion of Architecture (30 minutes) - Review Charter (5 min.) Maureen Stillman - General Discussion (20 min.) - Wrap up (5 min.)