Re: Candidate re-charter/new WG

From: Wojtek Sylwestrzak (W.Sylwestrzak@icm.edu.pl)
Date: Sun Nov 05 2000 - 12:26:06 MST


> At 20.44 +1000 00-11-05, jason andrade wrote:
> >Apologies if this is an ignorant question, but where do mirror sites fit
> >in the scheme of things.. are they just less sophisticated reverse proxies?
>
> Hope you have seen the _whole_ plan and not only the proposed charter for WEBI.
>
> If not, see below.
>
> paf
>

Are you saying that mirroring fits both into CDNP and WEBI
within the proposed plan ?
We'd not like to have it lost somewhere in the middle.

--w

> > Content Distribution Network Peering (CDNP) defines a model and mechanisms
> > for the interconnection and cooperation of networks for content-related
> > tasks: direction (directing requests for content), distribution (moving
> > content out to surrogates) and accounting (tracking the delivery of content
> > from surrogates). A single network may have its own mechanisms for these
> > tasks, and WEBI may define or standardize elements of those mechanisms. CDNP
> > focuses on the interactions required for direction, distribution, and
> > accounting between two or more networks with different administrations,
> > where the networks are potentially using different local mechanisms for



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