A new IETF working group has been proposed in the Applications Area.
The IESG has not made any determination as yet.
The following Description was submitted, and is provided for
informational purposes only:
Open Pluggable Edge Services (opes)
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Current Status: Proposed Working Group
Description of Working Group:
The Open Plugable Edge Service (OPES) WG 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.
The protocol provides a framework for integrating arbitrary 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 tranformation has been performed.
As part of the development of this protocol the WG will produce an
analysis of the security impliciations of this architecture.
A secondary task for this WG is to enumerate the requirements for
management policies and associated administrative protocols that allow
these services to be specified and deployed.
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 WG
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.
A number of existing Internet-Drafts will become WG documents:
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