Gary Tomlinson wrote:
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> We need to complete and deliver the 3 comitted RFCs in order to apply for an expanded charter to do forward looking work. I appreciate your comments made on 8/15 regarding replication. Lets all work these into our current taxonomy and improve the definition and accuracy of replication currently employed broadly in the web today.
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> Gary
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To start with, what confuses me is the relation of 'replication' and
'caching'.
I think the taxonomy draft is the place to specify this.
Is caching just a special case of replication or are these terms
exlusive ?
My understnding is that both mirroring and caching are various means of
replication,
but some people, notably the I2-DSI, tend to understand that replication
is more
a synonym of mirroring with caching being something other. There was no
problem
until we spok of caching and mirroring, but then came 'replication' ...
my vague definition would be:
replication = distribution of data to remote locations in order to
localize traffic
caching = on-demand replication of individual files
mirroring = permanent replication of complete data packages
and my question is:
shall we move along these lines, or does this make no sense at all.
Gary ?
--w
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