Please find beow the DRAFT agenda for the upcoming WREC meeting in
Minneapolis. Please send comments / changes directly to the list. We have a
2-hour session - I suggest we spend most of the time on the taxonomy and
design issues documents though those vendors who are not listed and who
would like to present should contact me directly.
For those of you who read the IETF-Announce list, you may have seen a
confusing note about the status of WREC. I can confirm for definite that
the working group will meet in Minneapolis, as a working group. As part of
the process of ratification by the IESG, the Area Directors were asked to
change the "Description" part of our charter in order to avoid any
confusion as to the scope of our work. Keith kindly re-wrote this - thanks
Keith - and I have appended it for your information. (I am offline at the
moment but will put it on the web pages as soon as I have access.) Note
that the work, timetable and deliverables have not changed.
Working Group on Web REplication and Caching
Thursday, March 18 at 1530-1730
IETF 44, Minneapolis
DRAFT Agenda
0. Introductions, agree agenda - 5 mins
1. Taxonomy document - Ingrid and Gary - 15 mins
- discussion - 15 mins
2. Design Issues - Joe - 15 mins
- discussion - 15 mins
3. Vendor protocols - various
- WCCP - ??? - 15 mins
- others... - 10 mins ea.
4. Charter re-visit - 10 mins
- do we want to look already at the
next 6 months...?
5. AOB
Please send comments / suggestions.
Rgds,
John
--IETF Working Group - Web REplication and Caching
Description
The purpose of this working group is to define a co-ordinated caching and replication framework for the world wide web.
Replication of web services and caching of http responses are distinct paradigms that to a large degree require distinct solutions. However, it is also important that web caches and replicated services be able to coexist. Ultimately, the working group will define a framework for efficient, reliable, and predictable service in a web which includes both replicas and caches. Part of this framework will be a means by which replicas and caches may be automatically discovered and utilized by clients.
Because of the wide variety of caching and replication solutions which are already in use, the initial task of the group is to familiarize itself with the diversity of existing practice. The group will therefore produce a document which provides a taxonomy of existing caching / replication developments and terminology which would be used as a reference for later work. In parallel with this, existing protocols and standards which are not publicly documented will be submitted to the IESG for publication as informational RFCs by their respective proponents. Once the initial phase is complete, the group will make a recommendation as to whether further protocol work is necessary or desirable, and submit a revised charter for consideration by IESG and IAB. --end
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