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Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES) Use Cases and Deployment Scenarios
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Network Working Group A. Barbir
Request for Comments: 3752 Nortel Networks
Category: Informational E. Burger
Brooktrout Technology, Inc.
R. Chen
AT&T Labs
S. McHenry
Individual Contributor
H. Orman
Purple Streak Development
R. Penno
Nortel Networks
April 2004
Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES)
Use Cases and Deployment Scenarios
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This memo provides a discussion of use cases and deployment scenarios
for Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES). The work examines services
that could be performed to requests and/or responses.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Types of OPES services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Services performed on requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1.1. Services intending to modify requests . . . . . 3
2.1.2. Services *not* intending to modify requests . . 4
2.2. Services performed on responses. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2.1. Services intending to modify responses . . . . . 4
2.2.2. Services *not* intending to modify responses . . 5
2.3. Services creating responses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. OPES deployment scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. Surrogate Overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2. Delegate Overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Barbir, et al. Informational
