ALTO S. Kiesel Internet-Draft K. Krause Intended status: Experimental University of Stuttgart Expires: November 17, 2013 M. Stiemerling NEC Europe Ltd. May 16, 2013 Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery (3pdisc) draft-kist-alto-3pdisc-03 Abstract The goal of Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) is to provide guidance to applications that have to select one or several hosts from a set of candidates capable of providing a desired resource. ALTO is realized by a client-server protocol. Before an ALTO client can ask for guidance it needs to discover one or more ALTO servers that can provide suitable guidance. This document specifies a procedure for third-party ALTO server discovery, which can be used if the ALTO client is not co-located with the actual resource consumer, but instead embedded in a third party such as a peer-to-peer tracker. Technically, the algorithm specified in this document takes one IP address and a U-NAPTR Service Parameter (i.e., "ALTO:http" or "ALTO:https") as parameters. It performs several DNS lookups (for PTR, SOA, and U-NAPTR resource records) and returns one or more URI(s) of information resources related to that IP address. Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 Terminology and Requirements Language This document makes use of the ALTO terminology defined in RFC 5693 [RFC5693]. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119]. Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). 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Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. Third-party ALTO Server Discovery Procedure Specification . . 5 2.1. Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2. Basic Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3. Overall Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.4. Specification of Tasks and Conditional Branches . . . . . 7 2.4.1. T1/B1: PTR Lookup on IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.4.2. T2/B2: U-NAPTR Lookup on yielded PTR value(s) . . . . 7 2.4.3. B3/T3/B4: Acquire SOA Record for Reverse Zone . . . . 8 2.4.4. T4/B5: U-NAPTR Lookup on SOA-MNAME . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.4.5. T5: Sort the Results by Order and Preference . . . . . 9 3. Implementation, Deployment, and Operational Considerations . . 10 3.1. Considerations for ALTO Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.1.1. Resource Consumer Initiated Discovery . . . . . . . . 10 3.1.2. IPv4/v6 Dual Stack, Multihoming, NAT, and Host Mobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.2. Deployment Considerations for Network Operators . . . . . 11 3.2.1. PTR-based vs. SOA-based discovery . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.2.2. Separation of Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.3. Impact on DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.3.1. Usage with DNS Hidden Master Servers . . . . . . . . . 12 3.3.2. Load on the DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Appendix A. Contributors List and Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . 17 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 1. Introduction The goal of Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) is to provide guidance to applications that have to select one or several hosts from a set of candidates capable of providing a desired resource [RFC5693]. ALTO is realized by a client-server protocol; see requirement AR-1 in [RFC6708]. Before an ALTO client can ask for guidance it needs to discover one or more ALTO servers that can provide suitable guidance. For applications that use a centralized resource directory, such as tracker-based P2P applications, the efficiency of ALTO is significantly improved if the ALTO client is embedded in said resource directory instead of the resource consumer (see Section 4.1 of [I-D.ietf-alto-deployments]). The ALTO client embedded into the resource directory asks for guidance on behalf of the resource consumers. To that end, it needs to discover ALTO servers that can give guidance suitable for these resource consumers, respectively. This is called third-party party ALTO server discovery. This document specifies a procedure for third-party ALTO server discovery. In other words, this document tries to meet requirement AR-33 in [RFC6708]. The ALTO protocol specification [I-D.ietf-alto-protocol] is based on HTTP and expects the discovery procedure to yield the HTTP(S) URI of an ALTO server's information resource directory. Therefore, this document specifies an algorithm that takes a resource consumer's IP address as argument, performs several DNS lookups (for PTR, SOA, and U-NAPTR [RFC4848] resource records), and produces URIs of ALTO servers that are able to give reasonable ALTO guidance to a resource consumer willing to communicate using this IP address. To some extent, AR-32, i.e., resource consumer initiated ALTO server discovery, can be seen as a special case of third-party ALTO server discovery. However, the considerations in Section 3.1.1 apply. Note that a less versatile yet simpler approach for resource consumer initiated ALTO server discovery is specified in [I-D.ietf-alto-server-discovery]. A more detailed discussion of various options where to place the functional entities comprising the overall ALTO architecture can be found in [I-D.ietf-alto-deployments]. Comments and discussions about this memo should be directed to the ALTO working group: alto@ietf.org. Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 2. Third-party ALTO Server Discovery Procedure Specification 2.1. Interface The algorithm specified in this document takes one IP address and a U-NAPTR Service Parameter (i.e., "ALTO:http" or "ALTO:https") as parameters. It performs several DNS lookups (for U-NAPTR and SOA resource records) and returns one or more URI(s) of information resources related to that IP address. 2.2. Basic Principle The algorithm sequentially tries two different lookup strategies. First, a "reverse DNS lookup" (i.e., PTR lookup in subdomains of in- addr.arpa. or ip6.arpa., respectively) is is performed on the IP address, in order to find the host name(s) associated with it. An ALTO-specific U-NAPTR lookup on this/these name(s) is used to find ALTO server URIs. If either lookup in the first step fails, the SOA record for the reverse zone is acquired. The master name server (MNAME) is extracted from the SOA and used for a further ALTO- specific U-NAPTR lookup. The goal is to allow deployment scenarios that require fine-grained discovery on a per-IP basis, as well as large-scale scenarios where discovery is to be enabled for a large number of IP addresses with a small number of additional DNS resource records. Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 2.3. Overall Procedure This figure gives an overview on the third-party discovery procedure. All tasks (T) and conditional branches (B) are specified below. (-------------------------------------) ( START 3pdisc with parameters ) ( IP address IP, Service Parameter SP ) (------------------+------------------) V +- T1 -------------+------------------+ | R:=.in-addr.arpa./.ip6.arpa.| | X:=lookup(PTR,R) | +------------------+------------------+ V / B1 --------+------------\ /----< One or more PTR(s) in X >----\ | yes \-------------------------/ no | | V +- T2 --------|-------------+ /----------------->+ | V | | V | /-> FOREACH Y:=PTR in X | | /- B3 -------+------------\ | | +--------+-----------+ | | < AuthSect with SOA RR in X > | | |lookup(U-NAPTR,Y,SP)| | | \--+---------+------------/ | | |add results to Z | | | yes | V no | | +--------+-----------+ | | | +- T3 -+-------------+ | \-----------+ | | | | X:=lookup(SOA,R) | +-------------|-------------+ | | +------+-------------+ V | | V /- B2 -------+------------\ | | /- B4 +------------\ no < One or more results in Z >----/ | -\ \------------+------------/ no | \-----+------------/ | | \-------->V yes | | yes +- T4 --------+-------------+ | | | Y:=extract MNAME from X | | V | Z:=lookup(U-NAPTR,Y,SP) | | +<-----------------\ +-------------+-------------+ | V | V | +- T5 --------+-------------+ | /- B5 -------+------------\ | | sort Z acc. to order,pref | \----< One or more results in Z > | +-------------+-------------+ yes \------------+------------/ | V no V<--------------/ (-------------+-------------) (-------------+-------------) ( END 3pdisc with result Z ) ( 3pdisc FAILED, no result ) (---------------------------) (---------------------------) Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 6] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 2.4. Specification of Tasks and Conditional Branches 2.4.1. T1/B1: PTR Lookup on IP Address Task T1 performs a PTR lookup in order to get the host name(s) associated with the IP address that was given as a parameter to the 3pdisc algorithm. To that end, a domain name is prepared for the PTR lookup and stored in variable "R" for later re-use, too. For IPv4, this domain name is rooted in the in the special domain "IN-ADDR.ARPA." [RFC1035] and for IPv6 the special domain "IP6.ARPA." [RFC3596] is used. The yielded PTR records are stored in variable "X". Example PTR records for IPv4 and IPv6 could be (Note: a line break was added in the IPv6 example): 3.100.51.198.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR dsl-198-51-100-3.isp.example.net. 0.2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.8.B.D.0.1.0.0. 2.ip6.arpa. IN PTR somehost.isp.example.net. Note that more than one PTR record could be found for a given IP address. Conditional Branch B1 checks whether at least one PTR record could be retrieved. If so, the algorithm continues with T2. If no PTR record could be retrieved we continue with B3. 2.4.2. T2/B2: U-NAPTR Lookup on yielded PTR value(s) Task T2 uses a loop to iterate over all names in X and do a U-NAPTR [RFC4848] lookup. For every name yielded in the previous task, the procedure uses a U-NAPTR lookup with the "ALTO" Application Service Tag and either the "http" or the "https" Application Protocol Tag to obtain one or more URIs (indicating protocol, host and possibly path elements) for the ALTO server's Information Resource Directory. In this document, only the HTTP and HTTPS URI schemes are defined, as the ALTO protocol specification defines the access over both protocols, but no other [I-D.ietf-alto-protocol]. Note that the result can be any valid HTTP(S) URI. The yielded NAPTR records are stored in array variable "Z". The following two U-NAPTR resource records can be used for mapping "somehost.isp.example.net." to the HTTPS URI https://altoserver.isp.example.net/secure/directory or the HTTP URI Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 7] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 http://altoserver.isp.example.net/directory, with the former being preferred. somehost.isp.example.net. IN NAPTR 100 10 "u" "ALTO:https" "!.*!https://altoserver.isp.example.net/secure/directory!" "" IN NAPTR 200 10 "u" "ALTO:http" "!.*!http://altoserver.isp.example.net/directory!" "" The response to a PTR query in Task T1 could contain multiple names, each causing a subsequent DNS lookup in this task. To prevent heavy DNS loads, discovery clients performing these queries MUST be implemented such that the number of DNS queries issued (i.e., loop cycles) is finite, though it MAY be configurable by an administrator. As an example, Section 5.5 of [RFC4408] chose a limit of 10 for its implementation of a similar algorithm. Conditional Branch B2 checks whether at least one NAPTR record could be retrieved. If so, the algorithm continues with T5. If no NAPTR record could be retrieved we continue with B3. Note: The U-NAPTR lookup in Task T2 is identical to Step 2 specified in [I-D.ietf-alto-server-discovery], which specifies with "manual input" and "DHCP" two alternatives for acquiring the name to be looked up. Therefore, it is possible to merge both documents into a common ALTO server discovery framework. 2.4.3. B3/T3/B4: Acquire SOA Record for Reverse Zone The task of B3/T3/B4 is to acquire the SOA record for the "reverse zone", i.e., the zone in the in-addr.arpa. or ip6.arpa. domain that contains the IP address in question. A sample SOA record could be: 100.51.198.in-addr.arpa IN SOA dns1.isp.example.net. hostmaster.isp.example.net. ( 1 ; Serial 604800 ; Refresh 86400 ; Retry 2419200 ; Expire 604800 ) ; Negative Cache TTL Conditional Branch B3 checks whether the SOA record was present in the authority section of X, i.e., the reply in Task T1. If not, an explicit lookup is done in Task T3. If Conditional Branch B4 Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 8] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 determines that this explicit lookup failed, the discovery procedure is aborted without a result; otherwise we continue with T4. 2.4.4. T4/B5: U-NAPTR Lookup on SOA-MNAME Now that the SOA record is available, Task T4 first extracts the MNAME field, i.e., the responsible master name server from the SOA record. An example MNAME could be: dns1.isp.example.net. Then, a U-NAPTR lookup as the one in Task T2 is performed on this MNAME and the result is stored in array variable "Z". If Conditional Branch B4 determines that this explicit lookup failed, the discovery procedure is aborted without a result; otherwise we continue with T5. 2.4.5. T5: Sort the Results by Order and Preference Task T5 sorts the NAPTR records that have been retrieved and stored in array variable "Z" according to their order and preference fields, see [RFC4848] and [RFC3403]. This sorted array is the final result of the third-party discovery procedure. Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 9] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 3. Implementation, Deployment, and Operational Considerations 3.1. Considerations for ALTO Clients 3.1.1. Resource Consumer Initiated Discovery To some extent, ALTO requirement AR-32 [RFC6708], i.e., resource consumer initiated ALTO server discovery, can be seen as a special case of third-party ALTO server discovery. To that end, an ALTO client embedded in a ressouce consumer would have to figure out its own "public" IP address and perform the procedures described in this document on that address. However, due to the widespread deployment of Network Address Translators (NAT), additional protocols and mechanisms such as STUN [RFC5389] would be needed and considerations for UNSAF [RFC3424] apply. Therefore, using the procedures specified in this document for resource consumer based ALTO server discovery is generally NOT RECOMMENDED. Note that a less versatile yet simpler approach for resource consumer initiated ALTO server discovery is specified in [I-D.ietf-alto-server-discovery]. 3.1.2. IPv4/v6 Dual Stack, Multihoming, NAT, and Host Mobility The algortihm specified in this document can discover ALTO server URIs for a given IP address. The intention is, that a third party (e.g., a resource directory) that receives query messages from a resource consumer can use the source address in these messages to discover suitable ALTO servers for this specific resource consumer. However, resource consumers (as defined in Section 2 of [RFC5693]) may reside on hosts with more than one IP address, e.g., due to IPv4/v6 dual stack operation and/or multihoming. IP packets sent with different source addresses may be subject to different routing policies and path costs. In some deployment scenarios, it may even be required to ask different sets of ALTO servers for guidance. Furthermore, source addresses in IP packets may be modified en-route by Network Address Translators (NAT). If a resource consumer queries a resource directory for candidate resource providers, the locally selected (and possibly en-route translated) source address of the query message - as observed by the resource directory - will become the basis for the ALTO server discovery and the subsequent optimization of the resource directory's reply. If, however, the resource consumer then selects different source addresses to contact returned resource providers, the desired better-than-random "ALTO effect" may not occur. Therefore, a dual stack or multihomed resource consumer SHOULD either always use the same address for contacting the resource directory and Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 10] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 the resource providers, i.e., overriding the operating system's automatic source IP address selection, or use resource consumer based ALTO server discovery [I-D.ietf-alto-server-discovery] to discover suitable ALTO servers for every local address and then locally perform ALTO-influenced resource consumer selection and source address selection. Similarly, resource consumers on mobile hosts SHOULD query the resource directory again after a change of IP address, in order to get a list of candidate resource providers that is optimized for the new IP address. 3.2. Deployment Considerations for Network Operators 3.2.1. PTR-based vs. SOA-based discovery As already outlined in Section 2.2, the third-party discovery procedure sequentially tries two different lookup strategies, thus giving network operators the choice of two different deployment options: o Individual PTR records in the in-addr.arpa or ip6.arpa domains and corresponding individual ALTO U-NAPTR records for these names allow very fine-grained discovery of ALTO "entry point" URIs on a per-IP-address basis. DNS operators that already maintain reverse zones (e.g., for PTR records) should prefer this option, possibly using DNS server implementation-specific methods for mass deployment (e.g., BIND9's $GENERATE statement). o If a DNS operator considers the first option too cumbersome, or if IPv6 privacy extensions is to be used without dynamic PTR updates, setting up SOA records in the in-addr.arpa. or ip6.arpa. subdomains plus setting up corresponding ALTO-specific U-NAPTR records will also give reasonable, yet less fine-grained results. 3.2.2. Separation of Interests We assume that if two organizations share parts of their DNS infrastructure, i.e., have a common SOA record in their in-addr.arpa. or ip6.arpa. subdomain(s), they will also be able to operate a common ALTO server, which still may do redirections if desired or required by policies. Note that the ALTO server discovery procedure is supposed to produce only a first URI of an ALTO server that can give reasonable guidance to the client. An ALTO server can still return different results based on the client's address (or other identifying properties) or redirect the client to another ALTO server using mechanisms of the ALTO protocol (see Sect. 6.7 of [I-D.ietf-alto-protocol]). Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 11] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 3.3. Impact on DNS 3.3.1. Usage with DNS Hidden Master Servers In some deployment scenarios, the Master DNS server for a in- addr.arpa. or ip6.arpa. subdomain, as indicated in the respective SOA record, may not be reachable due to traffic restrictions ("hidden master"). This does not cause any problems with the algorithm described here, as the MNAME is only used for further DNS lookups; but it is never attempted to contact this server directly. 3.3.2. Load on the DNS The procedure described in this document features only one loop that contains a DNS lookup (within task T2). This loop iterates over the PTR records yielded in task T1, which are associated with the input IP addres. In the worst-case scenario the total number of DNS lookups is 3+N, with N the number of PTR records, usually 0 or 1. DNS operators should avoid adding excessive numbers of PTR records for one IP address to the DNS, as this could - amongst other risks - increase the load on the DNS caused by this procedure. Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 12] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 4. Security Considerations A classification of the main security concerns related to ALTO can be found in the ALTO requirements document [RFC6708]. Using the procedure described in this document, any third party can discover a set of ALTO servers that can give ALTO guidance to a given IP address. However, this is generally not considered a security or privacy concern. Forged DNS replies (e.g., due to a compromised name server or due to DNS message interception and modification) may cause the discovery algorithm to fail or produce undesirable results: First, the third-party discovery procedure might not be able to discover an ALTO server, even if a suitable ALTO server exists. In that case, ALTO guidance will not be used. The resulting application performance and traffic distribution will subsequently correspond to a deployment scenario without ALTO guidance. Second, the discovery procedure may discover a sub-optimal or wrong ALTO server. Such an ALTO server may either not be able to provide information for a given resource consumer, thus rendering the ALTO service useless. Alternatively, the ALTO server may provide suboptimal or forged information. In the latter case, attackers could try to use ALTO to affect the traffic distribution or the performance of applications. Users may then observe performance problems, and network operators could detect traffic anormalities. A potential counter-measure is to disable the use of the ALTO service if such anormalities are detected. The application of DNS security (DNSSEC) [RFC4033] provides a means to limit attacks that rely on forging DNS messages. Security considerations specific to U-NAPTR are described in more detail in [RFC4848]. Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 13] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 5. IANA Considerations This document does not require any IANA action. This document specifies an algorithm that uses U-NAPTR lookups [RFC4848] with the Application Service Tag "ALTO" and the Application Protocol Tags "http" and "https". These tags have already been registered with IANA. In particular, for the registration of the Application Service Tag "ALTO", see [I-D.ietf-alto-server-discovery]. Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 14] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 6. References 6.1. Normative References [RFC1035] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987. [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC3403] Mealling, M., "Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Three: The Domain Name System (DNS) Database", RFC 3403, October 2002. [RFC3596] Thomson, S., Huitema, C., Ksinant, V., and M. Souissi, "DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6", RFC 3596, October 2003. [RFC4033] Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S. Rose, "DNS Security Introduction and Requirements", RFC 4033, March 2005. [RFC4848] Daigle, L., "Domain-Based Application Service Location Using URIs and the Dynamic Delegation Discovery Service (DDDS)", RFC 4848, April 2007. 6.2. Informative References [I-D.ietf-alto-deployments] Stiemerling, M. and S. Kiesel, "ALTO Deployment Considerations", draft-ietf-alto-deployments-03 (work in progress), November 2011. [I-D.ietf-alto-protocol] Alimi, R., Penno, R., and Y. Yang, "ALTO Protocol", draft-ietf-alto-protocol-13 (work in progress), September 2012. [I-D.ietf-alto-server-discovery] Kiesel, S., Stiemerling, M., Schwan, N., Scharf, M., and S. Yongchao, "ALTO Server Discovery", draft-ietf-alto-server-discovery-04 (work in progress), July 2012. [RFC3424] Daigle, L. and IAB, "IAB Considerations for UNilateral Self-Address Fixing (UNSAF) Across Network Address Translation", RFC 3424, November 2002. Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 15] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 [RFC4408] Wong, M. and W. Schlitt, "Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in E-Mail, Version 1", RFC 4408, April 2006. [RFC5389] Rosenberg, J., Mahy, R., Matthews, P., and D. Wing, "Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)", RFC 5389, October 2008. [RFC5693] Seedorf, J. and E. Burger, "Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Problem Statement", RFC 5693, October 2009. [RFC6708] Kiesel, S., Previdi, S., Stiemerling, M., Woundy, R., and Y. Yang, "Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Requirements", RFC 6708, September 2012. Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 16] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 Appendix A. Contributors List and Acknowledgments The initial version of this document was co-authored by Marco Tomsu . Hannes Tschofenig provided the initial input to the U-NAPTR solution part. Hannes and Martin Thomson provided excellent feedback and input to the server discovery. This memo borrows some text from [I-D.ietf-alto-server-discovery], as the 3pdisc was historically part of that memo. Special thanks to Michael Scharf and Nico Schwan. Martin Stiemerling is partially supported by the CHANGE project (http://www.change-project.eu), a research project supported by the European Commission under its 7th Framework Program (contract no. 257422). The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of the CHANGE project or the European Commission. Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 17] Internet-Draft Third-Party ALTO Server Discovery May 2013 Authors' Addresses Sebastian Kiesel University of Stuttgart Information Center Allmandring 30 Stuttgart 70550 Germany Email: ietf-alto@skiesel.de URI: http://www.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/nks/ Kilian Krause University of Stuttgart Information Center Allmandring 30 Stuttgart 70550 Germany Email: schreibt@normalerweise.net URI: http://www.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/nks/ Martin Stiemerling NEC Laboratories Europe Kurfuerstenanlage 36 Heidelberg 69115 Germany Phone: +49 6221 4342 113 Email: martin.stiemerling@neclab.eu URI: http://ietf.stiemerling.org Kiesel, et al. Expires November 17, 2013 [Page 18]