Re: Advertisement Protocol -- more thoughts

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

At 05:23 PM 2001-01-09 -0500, Kobus van der Merwe wrote:
> > Sorry to be so confused, but I'm still a little lost. I thought we were
> > talking about a content provider advertising its content to a CDN. So, the
> > content provider doesn't own surrogates, right?
> >
>
>I thought in the context of the discussion that "content provider" could
>also be another CDN. No ?


Yes. I was making the (perhaps unjustified) simplification that the even if 
both parties were CDNs, one would be acting like a content provider for the 
exchange. My further assumption is that if CDN A advertises (and 
distributes) content to CDN B, CDN B would actually retrieve/access that 
content from the origin content provider and not from CDN A. Perhaps this 
is an invalid assumption?



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