Re: Ordered 'opqque' validators

> Is anybody planning to do any modelling of these protocols?
> 
> As I understand it, millions of http clients and servers may be
> expected to implement a protocol thats designed to be used in a
> continental mega cache  - continental mega cache  situation. Wouldn't this
> rather special situation better be handled by a specific protocol for that
> environment?

you raise an interesting point.

Another thing I would really like to know, to what extent we can
expect hierarchical caching to be effective ?

We know that there are some very popular servers on the internet,
so that caching traffic to these servers might look effective. But
the objects are single files/documents. What percentage of the
millions of files of these servers gets really accessed let's say
10 or more times (within a reasonable time frame, say 1 week .. 1
month), so that caching really turns out to be a significant saving ?

And, especially, how many of these files get accessed just once,
so that no caching policy is going to help ? I suspect getting
these info from some very large server would really help in
determining what we could expect from our cache, the depth of the
hierarchy, etc.

	Luigi
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Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
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Received on Tuesday, 6 February 1996 20:29:58 UTC