Open Caching

Overview

As the amount of online video increases, ISPs face a challenge—the burdening of their networks with a growing amount of Internet-sourced traffic such as online video. But what if the ISP could pull video content from local cache? In this working group, participating members focus on helping ISPs solve this traffic problem by establishing the underlying technical and functional requirements for implementing an in-network, open caching system.

Objectives

The Streaming Video Technology Alliance Open Caching Working Group has two objectives. First, to identify the critical components of a non-proprietary caching system; and second, to establish basic architectural guidelines for implementation of an open caching system.

Presentations

Below are presentations delivered during working group sessions. Click on the presentation name to open it (many files are for members only and will require authentication) and a presenter name to view their profile. Note: if a presenter’s profile is not public, it will redirect to their LinkedIn page.

5G, MEC, and Open Caching

  

Presented by Yoav Gressel

Carlsbad F2F: Open Caching WG Slides

  

Presented by Eric Klein

Certificate Delegation

  

Presented by Sanjay Mishra

HTTPS Delegation - IETF101 Hackathon Proposal

  

Presented by Sanjay Mishra

IETF Update for Open Caching

  

Presented by Sanjay Mishra

MEC and Open Caching (Results Analysis)

  

Presented by Yoav Gressel

Multicast Over LTE POC

  

Presented by Sanjay Mishra

OC POC with eMBMS

  

Presented by William Chow

OC WG @ SVA Labs

  

Presented by Yoav Gressel

Open Caching docs update - SVA Q1 2018

  

Presented by Ori Finkelman

Open Caching Manifest Rewrite Proposal

  

Presented by Ori Finkelman

Open Caching Network Performance Metrics

  

Presented by Sanjay Mishra

Open Caching Presentations (Philadelphia Face-to-Face 2019)

  

Presented by Eric Klein

Open Caching Redirect Testbed

  

Presented by Sanjay Mishra

Open Caching Relayed Token Authentication

  

Presented by Ori Finkelman

Open Caching security considerations - f2f meeting May 2018

  

Presented by Ori Finkelman

Open Caching Status Update

  

Presented by Sanjay Mishra

Open Caching Status update (Feb 2019)

  

Presented by Sanjay Mishra

Implementation Guidelines Testbed

  

Presented by Alfonso Siloniz

Presented by Guillaume Bichot

Capacity Insights Update

  

Presented by Andrew Ryan

Configuration Interface Update

  

Presented by Glenn Goldstein

Open Caching WG Session

  

Presented by Alan Arolovitch

Presented by Alfonso Siloniz

Presented by Andrew Ryan

Presented by Dan Newman

Presented by Glenn Goldstein

Presented by Guillaume Bichot

Presented by Pankaj Chaudhari

Presented by Yoav Gressel

Capacity Insight Interface General Update

  

Presented by Ben Rosenblum

Configuration Interface and CAT Discussion

  

Presented by Glenn Goldstein

Configuration Interface Breakout Session

  

Presented by Glenn Goldstein

Configuration Interface General Update

  

Presented by Glenn Goldstein

FCI.Metadata Breakout Presentation

  

Presented by Ben Rosenblum

Presented by Glenn Goldstein

Open Caching Working Group General Updates

  

Presented by Pankaj Chaudhari

Presented by Yoav Gressel

Logging Interface Breakout Session

  

Presented by Ben Rosenblum

Testbed and Implementation Guidelines Breakout Session

  

Presented by Alfonso Siloniz

Presented by Guillaume Bichot

Open Caching Working Group Updates on Standards - CMCD and CMSD

  

Presented by Pankaj Chaudhari

Open Caching Working Group Cpacity Insights Update

  

Presented by Andrew Ryan

Common Access Token Update

  

Presented by Pankaj Chaudhari

Open Caching Working Group Configuration Interface Update

  

Presented by Glenn Goldstein

Open Caching Working Group Logging Update

  

Presented by Ben Rosenblum

Open Caching Working Group Request Routing Interface Discussion

  

Presented by Guillaume Bichot

Open Caching Working Group Testbed Update

  

Presented by Alfonso Siloniz

Presented by Guillaume Bichot

Open Caching Working Group Versioning Discussion

  

Presented by Guillaume Bichot

Open Caching Working Group Session

  

Presented by Pankaj Chaudhari

Presented by Yoav Gressel

Open Caching Working Group Capacity Insights Update

  

Presented by Ben Rosenblum

Open Caching Working Group Configuration Interface Part 2i Secrets Metadata

  

Presented by Ben Rosenblum

Open Caching Working Group Configuration Interface General Update

  

Presented by Glenn Goldstein

Open Caching Working Group OC WG Configuration Interface Part 2f Edge Control Metadata

  

Presented by Alfonso Siloniz

Open Caching Working Group Implementation Guidelines Update

  

Presented by Alfonso Siloniz

Presented by Guillaume Bichot

Open Caching Working Group Logging Interface Update

  

Presented by Ben Rosenblum

Open Caching WG Session

  

Presented by Pankaj Chaudhari

Presented by Yoav Gressel

Open Caching Working Group IETF Update

  

Presented by Sanjay Mishra

Open Caching Working Group Named Footprints

  

Presented by Alan Arolovitch

Telefonica TV Roaming Open Caching Use Case

  

Presented by Alfonso Siloniz

Open Caching WG Configuration Interface Breakout Session

  

Presented by Glenn Goldstein

dCDN Capabilites Breakout Session

  

Presented by Rajeev RK

Experience with Open Caching - Verizon

  

Presented by Sanjay Mishra

Experience with Open Caching - Broadpeak

  

Presented by Guillaume Bichot

Open Caching WG IETF Update

  

Presented by Sanjay Mishra

Open Caching WG Logging Interface Breakout Session

  

Presented by Ben Rosenblum

Open Caching WG Named Footprints Breakout Session

  

Presented by Alan Arolovitch

Open Caching WG Testbed Breakout Session

  

Presented by Alfonso Siloniz

Presented by Guillaume Bichot

IETF CDNI Working Group Update

  

Presented by Sanjay Mishra

Client Redirection Challenges Presentation

  

Presented by Rob Colantuoni

Configuration Interface API Update

  

Presented by Glenn Goldstein

Open Caching WG Document Overview

  

Presented by Yoav Gressel

Home Storage Update

  

Presented by Dan Newman

Open Caching WG Roadmap Presentation

  

Presented by Eric Klein

Open Caching Implementation Guidelines and Testbed Update

  

Presented by Alfonso Siloniz

Presented by Guillaume Bichot

Capacity Insight API Update

  

Presented by Andrew Ryan

Request Routing by Manifest Rewrite

  

Presented by Ori Finkelman

Review of Open Caching Service Provisioning Specification

  

Presented by Alfonso Siloniz

SVA Lisbon API Review

  

Presented by Eric Klein

SVA Lisbon Capacity API status

  

Presented by Eric Klein

SVA OC WG - MEC Status Update

  

Presented by Yoav Gressel

SVA OC WG Docs and Activities

  

Presented by Yoav Gressel

Documents

Published

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SVTA1013: Optimizing Video Delivery With The Open Caching Network

Delivering a great video experience requires content to be served as close to the end-user as possible. In this whitepaper, we illustrate how network operators can implement Open Caching nodes at the edge of their network, while adhering to specifications created by the Open Caching Working Group of the Streaming Video Alliance. These nodes can mitigate delivery latency and provide an improved viewer experience when hosted by the ISP and connected to the CDN/Content Provider nodes outside of the operator network, to create an Open Caching Network.

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SVTA2000: Open Cache Solution Functional Requirements Document

Problem statement and functional requirements of an open caching solution deployed by service providers to be used by content providers and content delivery networks.

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SVTA2004: Open Cache Logging Requirements Specification

This document specifies requirements for Open Caching System (OCS) for Logging data to help track data acquisition and delivery of it to the end user. The information logging is critical for the Open Caching Nodes as well as the upstream CDN and the Content Provider (CP). Logging information helps OCS track key performance metrics such as, data acquisition, delivery success and failures, measuring of effective throughput, cache hits and for troubleshooting fault and performance degradation. The logging data provided to the CDN by the OCS is also used by CDNs for auditing, billing and SLA purposes. The information logging will also be used by Open Caching Nodes (making up an OCS) for ensuring its compliance of SLAs with CDNs and measuring and assuring Quality of Experience (QoE) for an end user.

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SVTA2005: Open Caching Logging Integration Functional Specification

This document describes the process of provisioning a Logging Integration between a CDN and an ISP in an Open Caching solution. That is the process of configuring how delivery logs are transferred from ISP to CDN. The requirements for logging in Open Caching Nodes are described in the “Open Caching Logging Requirements Specification” document. This document defines extensions to the “Footprint and Capabilities” interface and to the “Service Metadata” interface, to allow provisioning a Logging Integration.

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SVTA2006: Open Cache Request Routing Service Provisioning Interface Specification

This includes the functional specification of open-caching service provisioning interfaces enabling a CDN and an SP to exchange information to enable the delegation of CDN content requests to the SP Open Caching system.

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SVTA2007: Open Cache Request Routing Functional Specification

This document describes the high-level functional specification of open caching request routing and the required interfaces to enable request routing to be performed from an upstream CDN to an open cache system. This version has been updated to address the Manifest Rewrite routing scheme.

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SVTA2008: Open Caching Content Management Operations Specification

This document describes the functional specification of the Open Caching Content Management interface and the functionality requirements from the SP Open Caching system. This document discusses the interface between the SP Open Caching Controller and the CDN. The interface between the SP OCC and the cache nodes (OCNs) is beyond the scope of this document.

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SVTA2016: Open Caching Relayed Token Authentication

This document describes the functional specification of open-caching relayed-token-authentication mechanism. The focus is on generically supporting URI signing using this method. There are additional applications – like user Cookies, which are mentioned in this document without getting into the specifics. While multiple different CDNs, as well as CDNi, support Tokenization in alternative methods, the goal of this implementation is to support all of these different formats via the relay authentication mechanism.

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SVTA2018: Open Caching Performance Measurement Specification

This document outlines measurement metrics for open-caching. The focus of this document is to outline key performance indicators related to quality of service metrics at the open cache nodes that is responsible for delivering the streaming content.

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SVTA2028: Open Caching Configuration Interface: Part 1: Overview and Architecture

This is the first part in a set of documents that specifies the motivational drivers, use cases, and standards for a configuration interface to facilitate interoperability within the content delivery network (CDN) and open caching ecosystems. This document set presents a layered architecture that extends the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) CDN Interconnect (CDNi) metadata model and adds publishing layer Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to provide configuration management capabilities required by the CDN and open caching industries.

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SVTA2029: Open Caching Configuration Interface: Part 2 – Extensions to CDNi Metadata Object Model

This is part two in a set of documents that specifies the motivational drivers, use cases, and standards for a configuration interface to facilitate interoperability within the content delivery network (CDN) and open caching ecosystem. This document presents the context and requirements for extending the Content Delivery Network Interconnection (CDNi) metadata model, as well as specific extensions that will fulfill those requirements.

This document will provide all the necessary information for an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) memo describing the Streaming Video Alliance (SVA) metadata interface requirements beyond those stated in RFC-7337 (Content Distribution Network Interconnection Requirements), along with requested extensions to RFC-8006 (Content Delivery Network Interconnection Metadata).

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SVTA2030: Open Caching Configuration Interface: Part 3 – Publishing Layer APIs

This is part three in a set of documents that specifies the motivations, use cases, and standards for a configuration interface to facilitate interoperability within the content delivery network (CDN) and open caching ecosystems. In this document, the requirements for a configuration publishing layer are presented, along with APIs that facilitate the publishing of CDNi metadata objects within the CDN and open caching ecosystems.

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SVTA2007-1: Open Cache Request Routing Functional Specification

This document describes the high-level functional specification of open caching request routing and the required interfaces to enable request routing to be performed from an upstream CDN to an open cache system. This is version 1 of the document.

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SVTA2048: Open Caching API Request Routing Interface

Content delivery delegation in open caching can be realized through two modes of request redirection, iterative and recursive.

Open caching previously supported the iterative mode only. This document describes the data model and architecture changes required to enable the recursive mode of delegation as well.

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SVTA2045: Open Caching API Footprint and Capabilities

This document describes the Application Programming Interface (API) methods and data model related to the Footprint and Capabilities Interface. The API has been entirely designed by the SVTA Open Caching group whereas the data model is based on the IETF Content Delivery Network Interconnection (CDNi) work. and on extensions specified by the SVTA Open Caching group.

Draft

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(DRAFT) SVTA2050: Open Caching Logging Specification

SVTA2048: Open Caching Request Routing Interface

(DRAFT) SVTA2028-1: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 1: Overview and Architecture Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA2029-1: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 2: CDNI Metadata Model Extensions Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA2030-1: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 3: Simple Configuration Metadata API Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA2031: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 2a: Metadata Expression Language (MEL) Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA2032: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 2b: Processing Stages Metadata Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA2033: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 2c: Cache Control Metadata Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA2034: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 2d: Source Access Control Metadata Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA2035: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 2e: Client Access Control Metadata Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA2036: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 2f: Edge Control Metadata Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA2037: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 2g: Open Caching Metadata Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA2038: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 2h: Private Features Metadata Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA2039: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 2i: Protected Secrets Metadata Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA2040: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 4: Service Configuration Model Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA2041: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 5: Metadata Capabilities Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA2042: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 6: Orchestration API Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA2043: Open Caching Configuration Interface Part 7: Terraform Integration Version 2.0

SVTA2045: Open Caching API Footprint and Capabilities

(DRAFT) SVTA2049: Open Caching Capacity Insight Interface

This document defines the specification for an API to retrieve capacity metrics from an Open Caching Node.

(DRAFT) SVTA2052: Open Caching Configuration Interface: Document Manifest Version 2.0

(DRAFT) SVTA5044: Open Caching API Implementation Guidelines

Participating Companies