On-Path Proxy Discovery (OPPD)

This is the starting point for an IETF activity on on-path proxy discovery.

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• If you're interested, please join our mailing list.

• We had a side meeting in Dublin (IETF-121) on Thursday, 7 November 2024, in Wicklow Hall 2A, from 18:30 to 19:30.

• Agenda:

  • 15 min presentation to frame the discussion
  • 45 min discussion about:
    1. Where should this work happen?
    2. Where should we do following work on performance enhancing functions? (SMAQ / Sidekick / .. ?)
    3. Design of OPPD

• Remote coordinates: IETF-provided access https://ietf.webex.com/meet/ietfsidemeeting2

• ics file

• Document with participant list and meeting minutes

• Recording

Please don't hesitate to edit anything here - including this readme file!

Who needs this?

• SCONE is now chartered; we think it will need OPPD.
• There are some research works that show a need, including:
  • Gina Yuan, Matthew Sotoudeh, David K. Zhang, Michael Welzl, David Mazières, Keith Winstein: "Sidekick: In-Network Assistance for Secure End-to-End Transport Protocols", Usenix NSDI '24, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 16-18 April 2024. (Recipient of Outstanding paper award and Community award)
  • M. Kosek, B. Spies and J. Ott, "Secure Middlebox-Assisted QUIC", 2023 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking), Barcelona, Spain, 2023. Preprint

Where in the IETF / IRTF would this work fit?

We think that potential venues are:

• SCONE once it gets chartered - but we don't want to wait and get started with OPPD already.
• TSVWG
• IRTF PANRG

draft-welzl-panrg-oppd

An informational draft to survey the possibilities, to help the discussion

This is the working area for the individual Internet-Draft, "On-Path Proxy Discovery".

• Editor's Copy
• Datatracker Page
• Individual Draft
• Compare Editor's Copy to Individual Draft

Contributing

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Command Line Usage

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