- From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 19:13:56 +0100 (BST)
- To: nazgul@utopia.com (Kee Hinckley)
- Cc: sdw@lig.net, lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk, m.koster@nexor.co.uk, nsb@nsb.fv.com, rating@junction.net, www-talk@www10.w3.org, uri@bunyip.com
Kee Hinkley wrote: > At 1:54 PM 6/20/95, Stephen D. Williams wrote: > >> > >> At 3:41 PM 6/19/95, lilley wrote: > >> >Those influential (and monied) groups who care about such things can the> n > >> >finance the proxies and their URC resolvers to implement whatever type > >> >of cens^H^H^H^Hfiltering is desired. > >> > >> A proxy based system really doesn't scale, money or no-money. I would like to see some backup for this rather bold assertion. > >I think you're wrong: All ISP's, companies, and Internet sites with more > >than a few users should have proxies for http, ftp, nntp (Newsservers > >are the most common proxy of course). Of course single global proxies > >don't work, but neither would a small set of central news servers. > Single global proxies are what was mentioned as an alternative. If you were referring to my original post, then no I was _not_ talking about a single global proxy to solve this! I was talking about local proxies used to filter requests (and act as a local cache, of course) by talking to a URC server. I do not see how that would not scale. The URC servers would of course be replicated, and communicate SAPs using peer networking - rather like the Harvest system. -- Chris Lilley, Technical Author +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Manchester and North HPC Training & Education Centre | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Computer Graphics Unit, Email: Chris.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk | | Manchester Computing Centre, Voice: +44 161 275 6045 | | Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Fax: +44 161 275 6040 | | M13 9PL BioMOO: ChrisL | | URI: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/lilley.html | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "The first W in WWW will not wait." François Yergeau | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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