Re: Distribution CPG Protocol

[Alex French <afrench@vianetworks.com>]

So this is a list of IP blocks that the CDN is willing to serve (eg for 
global CDNs it would be "*") rather than any type of advertisement of 
proximity to blocks.

Playing devil's advocate, I'm wondering two things:
1) How useful this data is in a negotiation scenario: CDN A might offer to 
serve any client worldwide, but it only has surrogates in the Far East.
2) How likely this is to change rapidly; if it's a relatively static 
parameter, could it just be done offline?

Basically, is there a lot to be gained from negotiating this online rather 
than offline?

Alex.

At 01:20 PM 11/01/2001, Martin May wrote:
>what I meant is that network lists are a good starting point
>(as Oliver proposed:
>REGION : <NAME> {
>        <IP>,<PREFIXLEN>;
>        <IP>,<PREFIXLEN>;
>        ....
>}!
>)
>But who will serve the clients that are not in one of the networks?
>but this is more a request routing problem and not a distribution
>problem.

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