Open Extensible Proxy Services BOF Session 49th IETF, San Diego Chairs: Michael Condry, Hilarie Orman

Whats This About? On beyond web caching –Transit-based services for intemediaries –Application-specific services –Expansion of client/server model draft-tomlinson-epsfw-00.txt, July 2000 Workshop held September 13, 2000 Website Mailing list

Goals of this BOF Meeting Rough consensus on the charter Understand relationship to CDNP, WREC/WEBI, C15N –Ignore relationship to RSPOOL, etc. Explain current directions of drafts Solicit design team members Seek consensus on moving to WG status

Agenda Introduction: Hilarie Orman 5 min Charter Bashing: Michael Condry and Hilarie Orman 10 min Use Cases: Marcus Hofmann 10 min Rule Systems: Marcus Hofmann 5 mins ICAP Progress: Don Gillies and Mark Nottingham 10 min Relationship to CDN Peering: Mark Day 5 min Workshop Summary: Michael Condry 5 min Document Roadmap: Hilarie Orman 7 min If time allows: Discussion of other documents Assignments and Administrivia

Charter Standards for services at authorized intermediaries in the network Protocols and APIs that facilitate efficiency delivery of complex content to users based on publisher/distributor instructions Liason points: cache directives w/WREC, routing to surrogages w/CDNP, object name resolution w/C15N, policy rules w/PG

Document Roadmap RFCs Requirements Architecture. Editor: Condry Security Policy Configuration Policy/filter rule language, API Proxy RPC (ICAP) Dynamic service instantiation language

Documents Informational? Language specific service definition API –Java, Perl, XML Service context APIs –Authentication services, paid content insertion, streaming media … Protocol specific proxy APIs –RTP, secure MCAST Application-specific name resolution