Re: wrec round 2

From: Martin Hamilton (martin@net.lut.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 29 1998 - 10:54:35 MDT


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Scott Michel writes:

| I guess my weakly articulated point was that you have these different
| cache systems out there. Is there a need to define a protocol or mechanism
| to exchange metadata between these systems, in essence to extend the
| global aggregate size of a caching system? Possibly, we're talking about
| an application level internetwork routing protocol based on HTCP. It's
| a thought...

Hi! I think I may have missed some of the background discussions
here, but in case it's relevant...

There's been some work done on exchanging summaries of cache contents,
e.g. see <URL:http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ-16.html>. You can
actually grab this and run with it in Squid 1.2 beta :-)

Ciao!

Martin

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