RE: Distribution CPG Protocol - Some Thoughts

[Alex French <afrench@vianetworks.com>]

I think we may be straying into a discussion of the content routing system 
rather than the content distribution peering; valid discussion, but we need 
to be clear which problem we're dealing with.

Alex.

At 03:12 PM 05/01/2001, Oliver Spatscheck wrote:
>Exactly! The problem is how to decide which CDN is 'better'. For example is
>Digital Island or Akamai better for my desktop computer (now or in 1 hour) You
>need some more details about the internals of the CDN to make this
>decision. The question is which information is required, which part of the
>system manages that information and how should it be transmitted. I guess we
>should agree on those high level aspects first ... .
>
>Oliver

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