RE: Distribution CPG Protocol - Some Thoughts

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

Actually, we're talking about content distribution (I think ;^). The 
question is not how to route a request but how a content provider makes a 
decision to (or not to) use a CDN service.

At 02:38 PM 2001-01-09 +0000, Alex French wrote:
>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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