> X-URI: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/
> .....
> > Isn't there a "content services" model here where one point
> > is a provider that gets paid and the other is a consumer that
> > pays.
>
> I'd rather leave assumptions about who pays whom out of the model.
> The information might be freely available, or the provider could be
> paying the consumer for reading his advertisements.
>
> Keith
>
> p.s. actually I don't even like the provider vs. consumer dichotomy -
> I'd rather think in terms of a bidirectional flow of information
> without assigning such roles. after all, nearly every "consumer"
> is a provider of some information - forms that are filled in,
> click trails derived from cookies, etc. - and I don't inherently
> see why consumer-provided information should not be treated with
> the same respect as provider-provided information. either party
> should have the right to control dissemenation of that
> information; neither should have it viewed or modified by third
> parties without consent.
>
We are not in disagreement over concepts, just language. Somewhere
a point requesting content/information, locating the content for
that requestor, and telling the content owner its being used have
be spelled out. I do not like the CDN peering language either but
it does spell some of this out!
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