Re: Distribution CPG Protocol - Some Thoughts

[Stephen Thomas <stephen.thomas@transnexus.com>]

At 02:51 PM 2001-01-05 -0500, Oliver Spatscheck wrote:
>  > I'm rapidly turning into a broken record, here, (and I'll really try to
>  > shut up on this), but it is necessary for CDNs to advertise prefixes, or
>  > can a CDN just post its list on its Web site? Potential customers (or
>  > peering partners) have a look at this list before they sign up with the
>  > CDN. I'm not trying to be a pest because I have any particular notion of
>  > what the market will or will not accept. I'm just trying to push back on
>  > anything that might complicate the initial protocol. (And I am only
>  > worrying about the initial protocol; there's always ng, or, as folks have
>  > taken to lately, bis.)
>  >
>
>[...]
>However, it is important for us to get this information in pseudo real time.

Now that I've cleared the virtual earwax, looks like a requirement. Sorry 
for being so dense before.

>[...] I am not sure anymore if the right place to gather this
>information is the distribution part of the architecture. I would really like
>to know what other people think about it.

If the content provider is going to make fine-grained choices about where 
to send its content, I think the distribution phase is the right one. (If 
the content provider were content [sorry] to hand off its content to a CDN 
and let the CDN make fine-grained decisions about surrogates, I might think 
differently.)

Stephen