Open Pluggable Edge Services(opes)
Co-chairs:
Michael Condry <condry(_at_)intel(_dot_)com>
Hilarie Orman <HORMAN(_at_)novell(_dot_)com>
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Description of Working Group:
The Open Pluggable Edge Service (OPES) working group primary task is to
define a protocol to be used to extend participating transit intermediaries
to incorporate services executed on application data transported by HTTP
and possibly RTP, RTSP. The protocol provides a framework for integrating
a wide range of services into arbitrary intermediaries. Intermediaries may
employ either local or remote ("callout") servers to perform a service, and
as a result, the data may be diverted temporarily over a closed loop
pathway different from the transit pathway.
Intermediary services provided in this way are not transparent: Either the
content requestor or provider will be aware that a transformation has been
performed.
As part of the development of this protocol the working group will produce
an analysis of the security implications of this architecture.
A secondary task for this working group is to enumerate the requirements
for management policies and associated administrative protocols that allow
these services to be specified and deployed. This includes requirements on
the rule systems used the define these policies and protocols.
The advantage of standardizing a protocol for this is that services can be
re-used across vendor products without modifying the transit intermediaries
or services.
The iCAP protocol already provides similar functionality and this working
group may elect to use iCAP as a starting point for its work. However, the
working group is not obliged to retain any level of compatibility with iCAP.
Existing Internet-Drafts
Early Requirements document (expired but available on the web site):
draft-tomlinson-epsfw-00.txt
Updated iCAP Callout Server:
draft-elson-opes-icap-01.txt
A Rule Specification Language for Proxy Services:
draft-beck-opes-imrl-00.txt
OPES Network Taxonomy:
draft-erikson-opes-net-taxonomy-00.txt
OPES Architecture for Rule Processing and Service Execution:
draft-yang-opes-rule-processing-service-execution-00.txt
OMML: OPES Meta-data Markup Language:
draft-maciocco-opes-omml-00.txt
General Use Cases:
draft-beck-opes-esfnep-01.txt
Goals and Milestones:
Apr 01: Consensus on the charter.
Jul 01: Protocol document last call.
Aug 01: Working group review of policy requirements document(s).
Dec 01: Policy requirements document last call.
Michael W. Condry
Director, Network Edge Technology