Bug#516750: ITP: rsplib -- Implementation of the IETF's Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) standard defined in RFCs 5351 to 5356.

[Thomas Dreibholz <dreibh@iem.uni-due.de>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Thomas Dreibholz <dreibh@iem.uni-due.de>


* Package name    : rsplib
  Version         : 2.6.0
  Upstream Author : Thomas Dreibholz <dreibh@iem.uni-due.de>
* URL             : http://tdrwww.iem.uni-due.de/dreibholz/rserpool/
* License         : GPL version 3
  Programming Lang: C, C++
  Description     : Implementation of the IETF's Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) standard defined in RFCs 5351 to 5356.

RSPLIB is the Open Source implementation (GPLv3) of the IETF's standard for
Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool). RSerPool is a framework for server pool
management and access. It is an IETF standard, which has been developed by
the IETF RSerPool Working Group and documented in RFC 5351 to RFC 5356. From
the programmer's perspective, a pool is mainly seen as a highly available
server. RSerPool realizes a Session Layer in the OSI model. The API to
access this Session  Layer is very similar to TCP/IP socket programming, so
using RSerPool functionalities in own programs is quite easy. If you are
looking for a simple-to-use workload distribution system including failover
capabilities, but without the overhead and configuration effort of GRID
computing, RSPLIB is probably what you are looking for! A lot of documents
on RSerPool and  RSPLIB can be found on the project homepage at:
http://tdrwww.iem.uni-due.de/dreibholz/rserpool/ .

RSPLIB is already included in Ubuntu Intrepid and Jaunty. Therefore, I
would like to add it to Debian, too.

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rsplib
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rsplib/rsplib_2.6.0-1.dsc