%% You should probably cite rfc9439 instead of this I-D. @techreport{ietf-alto-performance-metrics-19, number = {draft-ietf-alto-performance-metrics-19}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-alto-performance-metrics/19/}, author = {Qin Wu and Y. Richard Yang and Young Lee and Dhruv Dhody and Sabine Randriamasy and Luis M. Contreras}, title = {{ALTO Performance Cost Metrics}}, pagetotal = 34, year = 2021, month = oct, day = 24, abstract = {The cost metric is a basic concept in Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO), and different applications may use different types of cost metric. Since the ALTO base protocol (RFC 7285) defines only a single cost metric (namely, the generic "routingcost" metric), if an application wants to issue a cost map or an endpoint cost request in order to identify a resource provider that offers a better delay performance, the base protocol does not define the cost metric to be used. This document addresses this issue by extending the specification to provide a variety of network performance metrics, including network delay, delay variation (jitter), packet loss rate, hop count, and bandwidth. There are multiple sources (e.g., estimation based on measurements or service-level agreement) to derive a performance metric. This document introduces an additional "cost-context" field to the ALTO "cost-type" field to convey the source of a performance metric.}, }