| Internet-Draft | RSerPool Next Generation Ideas | March 2024 |
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This document collects some idea for a next generation of the Reliable Server Pooling framework.¶
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Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) has been defined as RFCs in [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]. There is also a detailed introduction provided by [16] as well as lots of further information material on [22]. RSerPool is therefore not introduced in more detail here.¶
The scope of this document is to collect some ideas of what to update/change for a next generation of the RSerPool framework. It is a result of lessons learned with more than one decade of RSerPool deployment (see also [17], [18], [19]) as well as ongoing discussions on applying RSerPool for Virtual Network Function Resource Pooling (VNFPOOL; as introduced in more detail in [15]).¶
This document introduces no additional considerations for IANA.¶
The RSerPool reference implementation RSPLIB, including example applications, can be found at [22]. It supports the functionalities defined by [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6] as well as the options [12], [14] and [13]. An introduction to this implementation is provided in [16].¶
NorNet is a large-scale and realistic Internet testbed platform with support for Reliable Server Pooling as well as the underlying transport protocols SCTP and MPTCP. A description of and introduction to NorNet is provided in [19], [20], [21]. Further information can be found on the project website [23].¶
The author would like to thank Randall R. Stewart, Michael Tuexen, Ning Zong for their discussions and support.¶