Re: Accounting in peered CDNs: (User Profiles)

[Michael Vernick <vernick@bell-labs.com>]

User profiles are very important, especially if you include profile information
about the user's device to make decisions on the delivered format of content.
i.e. content created for a standard PC screen could be modified within the
network for a device with a small screen.

Have you looked into the work going on in the CC/PP working group in the W3C?
(http://www.w3.org/Mobile/CCPP/)  This may be what part of what you are looking
for.

Michael Vernick
Lucent Bell Labs

Reinaldo Penno wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was thiking about this problem (stats for demographics) some time ago and
> have been working on a Used Profile Protocol. The abstract goes like
> this...(I'm not sending the whole text because do not want bother the
> members on this list if this is not the right forum)
>
> ---
>
> Network Working Group                                           R. Penno
> Internet-Draft
> NortelNetworks
> Expires: June, 2001                                         December, 2000
>
>                       User Profile Information Protocol
>                     draft-penno-cdnp-nacct-userid-00.txt
>
>    We present here a protocol in which edge network devices, which can be
>    further be subdivided in  IP Services Boxes, Broadband RASes, Edge
> Routers
>    and so forth, can inform surrogates or traffic interception devices
> extended information
>    about the user, such as geographic location, QoS policy, login (
>    name@domain.name), and start and stop times for the session.
>
>    This would not only allow better statistics and billing but also provide
> a way to
>    to surrogate servers and traffic interception devices to treat
> subscribers differently,
>    based on this extended information
>
> ---
>
> would this working group be the right forum for this protocol?
>
> thanks,
>
> you# -----Original Message-----
> you# From: owner-cdn@ops.ietf.org
> you# [mailto:owner-cdn@ops.ietf.org]On Behalf Of
> you# Oliver Spatscheck
> you# Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 4:00 PM
> you# To: Abhi Deshmukh
> you# Cc: cdn@ops.ietf.org
> you# Subject: Accounting in peered CDNs: Initial thoughts ....
> you#
> you#
> you#
> you# Abhi,
> you#
> you#  great summary. One thing we always hear from content
> you# provider is the
> you# request of stats for demographics (at least location if possible
> you# more). If we therefore, envision a world in which the
> you# entire content of
> you# a site would be delivered using CDN peering being able to aggregate
> you# client demographics would be one requirement. However, I recognize
> you# the complexity of that problem and I am not sure if we
> you# want to address
> you# it in the first version.
> you#
> you# Oliver
> you#