Not entirely mew news, but a recent Wired posting [1] focuses attention on massive investment by certain large content providers who are installing CDN servers near the edges of the networks at ISP sites. Thus, a Youtube or Netflix video served using such an arrangement might result in only local network traffic, while a similar video sourced from another provider might transit the long-haul network. Obviously, there are important financial implications, but also architectural questions relating to net neutrality and the ability for the Web to continue to evolve in a decentralized manner. I'm not suggesting any particular action by the TAG on this just now, but it does seem to be a trend we should be tracking. Noah [1] http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/cdn/Received on Saturday, 9 June 2012 15:49:03 UTC
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