in the HTTP draft, the term "transparent", I beleive,
is meaning "semantically transparent".
In cache parlance, "transparent" seems to mean
"network transparent".. we should probably come up
with a good word for the wrec version of transparent
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Dilley [mailto:jad@pimlico.hpl.hp.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 8:29 PM
> To: Henrik Nordstrom
> Cc: Ingrid Melve; Ian Cooper; wrec@cs.utk.edu
> Subject: Re: Taxonomy draft, draft-melve-wrec-taxonomy-00.txt
>
>
> > Neither of these "transparent" definitions has anything to do with
> > traffic interception/redirection.
>
> Unfortunately the HTTP/1.1 definition of transparent is not what
> the term has come to describe. Should the community attempt
> to choose a
> new term (and influence the industry to use it)? Can the
> HTTP/1.1 term
> be renamed? Should WREC document the different use of the term in
> today's caching industry? (My preference is the last one, since I do
> not believe we can modify common usage, nor can we change the existing
> spec overnight.) Other input? Thank you,
>
> -- jad --
> John Dilley <jad@hpl.hp.com>
> PS.
> Henrik, Ingrid, Ian -- I've not heard from you yet on the Known
> Problems draft. I'm hoping more of the leaders in the
> caching industry
> will speak up about current problems, particularly regarding operation
> of cache meshes. Ingrid (and others) have presented some interesting
> work on ICP (3rd WCW) that I'd like to see in there ... but I
> am only a
> lowly editor ;-) Think about it, drop me a line if you have a minute!
>
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