Re: Advertisement Protocol -- more thoughts

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

At 12:29 PM 2001-01-05 -0500, brad cain wrote:


>URL Exchange Protocol (proxy case)
>----------------------------------
>This protocol exchanges a list of urls and a set of metrics with
>each set.  This protocol is used to communicate metrics to proxies or
>transparent proxies.  An example would be a CDN advertising
>
>"Content AS": 2
>url: http://www.blah.com/images
>nexthop: surrogate 1
>metric: 10


Can Brad (or anyone else) help me understand what nexthop and metric are in 
this case?

Stephen



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