Patrick:
> In a previous episode fielding@ebuilt.com said...
> ::
> :: I don't buy the argument that "transparent proxy" is the common term
> :: for this in the industry. I am in this industry and yet I have never
> :: heard that term used outside a wrec-related discussion,
>
[...]
>
> (Altavista has 3260 pages with "+transparent +proxy" and 16,804 with
> "+transparent +cache").. heck even CERN the home of the first httpd
> has http://sunstats.cern.ch/mrtg/webcache.html titled "CERN-USA
> Transparent Web Cache(s) Traffic".
>
> -P
>
Exactly. Like it or not, this *is* the term in common use
and *this is* how the vocabulary gets (re)defined.
The goal of the taxonomy draft was to document the current
practice, not to impose new definitions or artificial terminology
even if it seems more appropriate for a reason.
--w
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