- From: Patrick McManus <mcmanus@appliedtheory.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:35:32 -0500 (EST)
- To: Ted Hardie <hardie@thornhill.arc.nasa.gov>
- Cc: robh@imdb.com, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
In a previous episode Ted Hardie said... :: :: :: > I know there are plans to make proxies report this kind of info in the :: > future, but we're not there yet and sites that are dependant on ad revenue :: > cannot afford to be good net citizens w.r.t caching ads. :: :: Just to clarify, the proposals are to standardize a method :: to *allow* proxies to report this kind of data. Nothing in the :: proposals *makes* anyone do anything. Jeff and Paul :: were very clear about that from the beginning, and it :: keeps the hit-metering draft out of the scary :: "big-brother" category. Right on.. and to clarify a little further when serving to a proxy the origin server is told whether or not the proxy pledges to return this information at a later date.. if it doesn't they can cache bust.. the weakest point of the hit-metering draft IMHO is that it doesn't try and provide any other methods of determing proxy reliability wrt this pledge to base the "to cache or to bust" decision on.. -P
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