On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Mark Day 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?
>
> Apologies in turn if I now ask an ignorant question, but what aspect of
> mirror sites would you want to standardize? Answering that question in a
> little more detail may make it easier to determine where it should be
> discussed.
i look after a couple of mirror sites and also look after some mirror
distribution networks for archives. there's little to nothing in the
way of standards for mirrors. there are a number of tools available and
a loose `confederation' of mirror admins who exchange knowledge but that's
about it. the wheel often gets re-invented in new and wonderful ways.
from what i've seen WREC/WEBI seem to be able producing standards and
it would have been useful to know if this could be applied to mirrors
and if it clearly couldn't maybe there needs to be another forum for
those sorts of discussions/work.
apart from "raw" mirror sites, there's also been some work on redirect
protocols being used into mirror sites and things like that are not
well understood or deployed yet, which they might be if there was a
clear way to implement them (or not as the case may be)
as an example, not too many squid cache admins allow for close to gigabyte
sized individual files in their archive, yet mirrors are sending terabytes
of this kind of data around the net daily.
-jason
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