Re: definitions and use of "transparency" in the taxonomy

From: Brian E Carpenter (brian@hursley.ibm.com)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2000 - 14:30:15 MST


Can't resist, but I have trimmed the cc's somewhat...

Patrick McManus wrote:
>
...
>.. 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".

Indeed. Firstly, that happened after I left CERN. Secondly, it was
that very "transparent" cache that taught me the hard way that
it wasn't transparent, when I was back at CERN earlier this year
trying to experiment with a toy diffserv setup across the Atlantic.

    Brian



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