- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:45:43 -0500
- To: Technical Architecture Group WG <www-tag@w3.org>
>ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources > >http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/ > >Raised by: Norman Walsh >On product: > >At the 13 Aug 2007 telcon, the TAG resolved[1] to create a new issue >to track the problems associated with accessing popular URIs. This >issue arose as a result of discussing Ted Guild's request for a >"best practices"[2] document on caching. > >Web architecture advocates identifying important resources with >URIs, most often http: URIs. But when a resource is very popular and >its use is associated with attempts to get a representation, use of >http: URIs can lead *in practice* to a crippling volume of traffic >on particular web servers. In principle, the web has mechanisms to >cope with this problem, but it remains a real problem in practice >nevertheless. > >The TAG will consider attempt to determine what, if any, >recommendations, guidelines, best practices, or technology changes >would help alleviate the practical problems associated with the >scalability of URI access. I wonder if the discussion taking place on public-semweb-lifesci might be relevant to this? The message which gets you the thread http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-semweb-lifesci/2007Aug/0134.html was next to yours in my emailbox. Pat Hayes > > Be seeing you, > norm > >[1] http://www.w3.org/2007/08/13-tagmem-minutes.html >[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2007Jul/0200.html > >-- >Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Knowledge, sense, honesty, learning, >http://nwalsh.com/ | good behavior are the chief things > | towards making a man's fortune, next to > | interest and opportunity. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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