- From: Albert Lunde <albert-lunde@nwu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 7:58:53 CST
- To: jmkgre@essex.ac.uk
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
> Whilst they do help enormously, they do not solve the problem entirely. > For instance, in a live broadcast, people can hardly get the entire > file from a cache went the EOF hasn't been transmitted yet, can they? A > better system of single-distribution is needed. [...] > Now, why couldn't there have been one file going to each country that > requests it, it gets stored temporarily in the country's main centre > (like Telehouse or LINK in the UK) where the appropriate ISPs are given > access to the file and they transmit it to their users. This sounds a lot more like IP multi-casting and/or the MBONE, which _has_ been applied to live audio/video transmission. I don't know of applications of IP multi-casting to file-serving. Doing much better with IP multi-casting than multi-level proxy caches might require advance knowledge of who would want what files where.
Received on Tuesday, 25 November 1997 08:59:22 UTC