Re: Mirror Negotiation

Chanda Dharap writes:

| I remember there were studies that showed proxy caching was not much
| of an improvement. Cannot remember references right away, but one of
| them was DEC's Proxy caching study , it appeared in one of the first
| WWW conferences.

Well, bandwidth savings of up to 60% are really terrible if you're 
(say) in the business of selling bandwidth...  Makes those pesky Web 
pages download a damn sight faster though!

| Has anyone given thought to some sort of a hierarchy of caches ? Maybe
| topical caches as opposed to regional ? Caching could be a combination
| of server-side Proxy caching as well as caching at the hierarchy.

Start at <URL:http://www.nlanr.net/Cache/>
 
| ??

!!

:-))

Martin