Re: Distribution CPG Protocol

[Eric Dean <eric@crystalballinc.com>]

Again, IP addressing and geotargeting are falliciously related.  Since 
CIDR, most networks are highly aggregated.
 
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Alex French wrote:

> 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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