- From: John Martin <jmartin@netapp.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:47:29 -0400 (EDT)
- To: mcmanus@appliedtheory.com, koen@win.tue.nl (Koen Holtman)
- Cc: connolly@w3.org, mcmanus@appliedtheory.com, roconnor@uwaterloo.ca, www-talk@w3.org, jigsaw@w3.org
At 08:36 AM 06/07/99 -0400, Patrick McManus wrote: >I'm not sure what can be done to teach content providers the value of >good expiry info. If they think of it at all, it's usually 'how do I >force a cache to skip over me?'.. and it's definitely a thing that >needs an economy of scale to be real worthwhile.. Exactly. The issue is not one of technology but of deployment. >I suspect that it will come from pressure applied by access providers >as they enforce cache policies more and more the ramifications will >push content providers into thinking a little bit that way too.. the >irony is that the benefits are just as big (if not bigger) for the >content provider. I couldn't agree more. But I'm not sure the situation is as bleak as you think since most of the information retrieved by the majority of users comes from a relatively small number of sites. Perhaps by persuading the big guys, demonstrating the improved QoS to their users, the smaller sites will follow. John --------------------------------------------------------------- Network Appliance Main Office: +31 23 567 9600 Kruisweg 799 Fax: +31 23 567 9699 NL-2132 NG Hoofddorp Voicemail/Mobile: +31 654 308 275 ---------------------------------------------------------------
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