At 4:19 pm +0100 23/11/98, Mike_Spreitzer.PARC wrote:
>(I'm sorry, I've lost track of where "the charter" is kept, so I'll have to
http://www.terena.nl/tech/wrec/
(just updated to try to capture Keith's comments)
>What are your thoughts on whether the charter does and/or should include
>either
>or both of the following ideas.
>
>1. Lease-based caching: there can be a contract between a client and a server
>(some caching proxies, at least, and perhaps also origin servers), in
>which >server is responsible for notifying the client when pages fetched
>by the >cease to be the latest version.
This would be highly desirable and would serve to simplify the model somewhat.
>2. Replicated servers: rather than "an origin server", there is a
>collection of
>peer origin servers; a given client (user agent or intermediary) reads
>from and
>writes to a single one of the peers, and the peers propagate the updates among
>themselves.
Again, yes.
John
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