> From jmartin@netapp.com Mon Sep 6 11:55 EDT 1999
>
> Misha, Gary,
>
> At 10:11 PM 04/09/99 -0400, michael rabinovich wrote:
> >A cache - a device on the request path from a client to a server
> >^^^^^^^
> >such that (1) requests arrive to this device regardless of its state;
> >and (2) it can store some responses and use them to
> >satisfy future requests for the same resources.
>
> I think this is the definition of a proxy or a caching proxy, not a
> "cache". I believe the definition of the broad term "cache" was deemed too
> controversial / difficult at one of our previous meetings and I thought
> that we had therefore agreed, in the context of the taxonomy document, to
> define only the term "caching proxy" and derivatives thereof?
>
> John
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Sure, that's fine. I indeed first thought of it as a definition of
a proxy but then thought that it generalizes to other caches.
Misha
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