Re: new to cdn internetworking

[Ian Cooper <ian@the-coopers.org>]

--On Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:25 -0500 Christian Kuhtz 
<ck@arch.bellsouth.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:14:30PM -0500, Eric Dean wrote:
>>
>> When running everyone's through forward proxies (which does every
>> business via a firewall and some major ISPs), the proxy becomes a layer7
>> network device that can do pretty much anything with content requests.
>
> I've been pretty quiet in this discussion, although I've been
> lurking on this list since the very beginning.
>
> It might be worthwhile pointing out that several major providers
> have failry recently turned off, removed or otherwise have disabled
> or are in the process of disabling their forward proxy caching
> infrastructures.  Others find that the only way to make their
> deployments work out operationally is with substantial
> contributions by the vendors who sold the gear.

Is the decommissioning of proxies something that's limited to North 
America, or is this something you're seeing happening on an international 
basis?

It's well known that due to the costs of bandwidth over here caching 
proxies have had limited penetration and administrators have seen little 
use for them.  I think the story is somewhat different in other parts of 
the world, but I'd be interested to hear if that story is changing.