Keith,
At 8:06 pm +0100 23/11/98, Keith Moore wrote:
>I have no problem with documenting current practice, as long as the
>document and the authors are clear that they are describing current
>practice and not a representation of how things *should* work.
This is exactly what we are proposing. There are currently 4 protocols
which have been offered to the group by their authors / collaborators:
WPAD, WCCPv2.0, extended ICP and a cache-network-element protocol (as yet
unnamed). Whether or not these represent "how things *should* work" is a
matter for further study but they are being developed and either are or
will be widely deployed. This is current practice and we wish to document
it as the first part of our WG activities.
>But documenting current practice isn't interesting to most WG members -
>they tend to want to do new work.
With respect, Keith, I dont see how you can say that this is true! How do
you define "most WG members"? I think we have a very strong case which says
the opposite: see above. I wouldn't claim to know what most WG members are
interested in but I do know that there is a strong group of individuals
representing both a large group of cache operators and the software vendors
are interested in collaborating within the IETF on the subject of caching.
Surely this is a good thing?
>"intermediary" seems like an odd term for what could be called an
>"origin server" in HTTP jargon. I think it would be clearer to
>use the term to describe something that appears in the signal
>path between client and origin server.
I dont care what it is called. I think Ingrid defined it better in her
latest message so I hope we can agree on that.
Have you seen the latest version of the charter? If so, I'd welcome some
proposed concrete changes to the text. I have already added a pointer to
Micah's paper on the proposal for I2-DSI but I would be grateful if you
would point me to any other work in progress in the area of replication so
that we may also read it before the BoF. (Also, I was unable to find an
HTML version of this paper? Micah?) In the meantime, I will add replication
to the BoF agenda.
John
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"The Challenge of Gigabit Networking"
The TERENA-NORDUnet Networking Conference 1999
7-10 June 1999 Lund, Sweden
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