** Scott Michel wrote: **
> points I was trying to pose as the goals of this proto-WG:
>
> - There are clients. There are origin servers. There may exist
> structure between clients and origin servers. Clients shouldn't
> be manually configured to use this intermediate structure,
> otherwise, things like packet hijacking and request hijacking
> become the norm.
Comments from the developers on this one (since there is real work in this
area)?
> - Packet and request hijacking is A Really Evil Thing.
...in the opinion of Internet Engineers. There were days when NATs were ARET.
If we want to break the end-to-end functionality, we should at least know what
we do. A good place to do hijacking is a leafnode, not a backbone. Maybe we
should document this, point out why and how.
> - There are a lot of caching systems out there, the dominant one
> appears to be Squid (and Harvest). There will be others as well
> (successful PhD research notwithstanding). What kind of metadata
> could or should these caching systems exchange with each other?
> Do we even want caching structures to interoperate with each other?
Given that caches do interoperate, is there a need for standardization of
inter-cache communication protocols? Are the competing protocols a problem?
> - Structure requires some kind of architecture and requirements doc to
> describe the various entities and their interactions.
This is in my opinion the first point of the agenda (possibly after a scenario
document, if we need one).
> - One thing I tried to stay away from is the copyright issue.
God created lawyers to deal with such things. Please, let us solve the
technical issues and leave the law (immature law is politics, where we as
private persons are entitled to meddle) to the lawyers at this stage?
> I don't think we want the scope of wrec (for lack of a better name) to
> have too large a scope. If we can at least come up with a few approaches
> and possible standards-track RFC for client<>"structure" autodiscovery
> I think we'd be able to declare the WG a success on that point alone.
It is unclear to me if you propose to cover
- client to proxy configuration
- interproxy communication
- transparent caching and Evil
- cache system architecture
or if you want to focus on the first issue.
Ingrid
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