Reliable Server Pooling BOF (rspool) Tuesday, August 1 at 1700-1800 ============================== CHAIRS: Maureen Stillman Lyndon Ong DESCRIPTION: Reliable application service is critical to many different applications. Examples include call control, mobility location registers, and e-commerce websites. Reliability can be implemented using an application server pool, where multiple hosts support a single application with redundancy and/or load sharing. Existing server pooling mechanisms are typically proprietary and designed for specific applications. As a result they cannot be extended to heterogeneous environments and new applications. The Reliable Server Pooling effort will focus on standardizing a generalized mechanism to provide a client with reliable service(s) provided by an application server pool. The objective is to cleanly separate the application from the reliability mechanism and allow different types of applications to use a common reliability framework and protocols. AGENDA: (total time 1 hr) - Introduction (5 min.) Lyndon Ong, Nortelnetworks - Reliable Server Pooling Issues - Overview and Applications (10 min.) Discussion of applications in the signaling world, especially mobile: John Loughney, Nokia Second speaker: TBD - Requirements (15 min.) Randy Stewart, Qiaobing Xie, Motorola - Proposal for Workplan (5 min.) Maureen Stillman, Nokia - Discussion (20 min.) - Wrap up (5 min.)