Re: Ordered 'opqque' validators

 >There is a theorem in statistics which says that the the combination of
 >large numbers of random variables yields to a gaussian distribution,
 >independently of the distribution of each single variable. Similarly,
 >when we have a national or continental cache, I expect the number of users
 >to be so large to make differences disappear and make the aggregate
 >result almost the same everywhere.

A number of studies suggested a cache hit rate of 30-50% and
the results seem to be very consistent. See the paper
by Marc Abrams et al "Caching Proxies: Limitations and
Potentials" in proceedings of WWW4 for references.

Cheers
Zheng

Received on Wednesday, 7 February 1996 12:06:34 UTC