Hello Scott,
Break this into two phases. The first phase would be to baseline the work.
That means getting IDs that would become informational RFCs on what has
happened, what has been successful, and what work that needs to be done.
This can be broken into two docs - one listing the work that out there and
defining what role each protocol was designed to accomplish (i.e. ICP,
Digest, CARP, WCCP, HTCP, etc.).
The second document would be operational requirements. This would list
operational experiences by the people depending on WWW Caching.
These two docs would provide the foundation to see if we need to dive into
the protocol development work. If yes, we update the charter with new
objectives.
Barry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Michel [mailto:scottm@cs.ucla.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 1:39 AM
> To: Martin Hamilton
> Cc: webrepl@cs.utk.edu
> Subject: Re: wrec round 2
>
>
> The cache digest is a cache-to-cache metadata transfer. I'm posing
> a more general question: Do we want/need/have to define a cache
> system-to-cache system metadata exchange, e.g. interop between
> SkyCache, Inktomi, and Squid? Can Squid send referrals to a mirror
> system pointed to by Keith's "super DNS oracle"?
>
> - Awareness of other caching systems
> - Application level routing of user's requests between caching
> systems
> - Metadata exchange
>
> Opinions? Flames? Comments?
>
> > | 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 :-)
>
>
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