For those of you who didn't spot it (or the press release), here is the
details for NECP, the protocol I initially presented two meetings ago. It
is designed to allow simple but standardized two-way communication between
proxy-caches, and the switches or routers to which they are usually
attached, in some sort of load balancing configuration.
It has been developed by a group of commercial switch and cache vendors in
order to get the ball rolling. We would hope / plan to standardize the next
version via the standard IETF channels, preferably as a WREC work item.
Regards,
John
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> Title : NECP the Network Element Control Protocol
> Author(s) : A. Cerpa, P. Danzig, G. Tomlinson, A.
> Chankhunthod,
> C. Neerdaels, T. Schroeder, J. Elson, H. Beheshti,
> R. Jalan
> Filename : draft-cerpa-wrec-necp-00.txt
> Pages : 37
> Date : 25-Oct-99
>
>This document describes 'NECP', a lightweight protocol for
>signalling between servers and the network elements that forward
>traffic to them. It is intended for use in a wide variety of server
>applications, including for origin servers, proxies, and
>transparent proxies. The network element may also be a range of
>devices, including so-called L4 or content-aware switches and
>load-balancing routers.
>NECP provides methods for network elements to learn about servers'
>capabilities, availability, and hints as to which flows can and can
>not be serviced. This allows network elements to perform load
>balancing across a farm of servers, redirection to transparent
>proxies, and cut-through of flows that can not be served by the
>farm.
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