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INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

J. Seedorf
E. Burger

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IETF

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5693

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Abstract

Distributed applications -- such as file sharing, real-timecommunication, and live and on-demand media streaming -- prevalent onthe Internet use a significant amount of network resources. Suchapplications often transfer large amounts of data through connectionsestablished between nodes distributed across the Internet with littleknowledge of the underlying network topology. Some applications areso designed that they choose a random subset of peers from a largerset with which to exchange data. Absent any topology informationguiding such choices, or acting on suboptimal or local informationobtained from measurements and statistics, these applications oftenmake less than desirable choices.

This document discusses issues related to an information-sharingservice that enables applications to perform better-than-random peerselection. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.