RE: Distribution CPG Protocol - Some Thoughts

[Alex French <afrench@vianetworks.com>]

Exactly, but deciding which CDN is "better" for a particular client is in 
the realm of the request router, not the content distribution system.

Alex.

At 07:02 PM 09/01/2001, Stephen Thomas wrote:

>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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