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While this thread is slowly drifting, I disagree with your assertion that so much of the web traffic is cacheable (nlanr's caching effort, if I remember, only got around 60% of requests hit in the cache, pooled over a large number of clients. That probably should be the correct percentage of cacheable content on the net). If anything, the net is moving to be *more* dynamic. The problem is that web sites are putting unrealistic expires on images and html files because they're being driven by ad revenues. I doubt that any of the US based commercial websites are interested in losing the entries in their hit logs. Caching is the type of thing is totally broken by session-ids, (sites like amazon.com and cdnow). The only way caching is going to truly be viable in the next 5 years is either by a commercial company stepping in and working with commercial content providers (which is happening now), or webserver software vendors work with content companies on truly embracing a hit reporting protocol. So basically, my assertion is that L4 caching on any protocol will not work if the content provider is given any control of TTL and metrics. The only way web caching *really* works is when people get aggressive and ignore the expire tags from a network administrator point of view, not a content company's. From what I remember, that was the only way the some Australian isps were able to make very aggressive caching work for them. Further, the more you rely on L4 implementations for caching, the more it seems you would be open to broken implementations... Although that is a broad statement... [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: Vadim Antonov [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 4:23 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Is anyone actually USING IP QoS? > > 99% of Web content is write-once. It does not need any fancy management. > The remaining 1% can be delivered end-to-end. > > (BTW, i do consider intelligent cache-synchronization development efforts > seriously misguided; there's a much simpler and much more scalable > solution > to the cache performance problem. If someone wants to invest, i'd like > to talk about it :) > > >even if i assume caching is as efficient, or > >more so, than multicast, i'm still just trading one set of > >security/scalability concerns for others. caching is no more a silver > >bullet than multicast. > > It is not that caching is a silver bullet, it is rather that multicating > is unuseable at a large scale. > > >i won't deny the potential scalability problems but i think your > >generalizing/oversimplifying to say caching just works and has no > security > >or scalability concerns. > > Well, philosophical note: science is _all_ about generalizing. For an > inventor > of perpetuum mobile the flat refusal of a modern physicist to look into > details to assert that it will not work sure looks as an oversimplifying. > After all, the details of actual construction sure are a lot more complex > than > the second law of thermodynamics. > > In this case, i just do not care to go into details of implementations. > The > L2/L3 mcasting is not scalable and _cannot be made_ scalable for reasons > having > nothing to do with deficiencies of protocols. > > Caching algorithms do not have similar limitations, solely because they do > not rely on distributed computations. So they have a chance of working. > Of course, nothing "just works". > > --vadim > > PS To those who point that provider ABC already sells mcast service: > there's an > old saying at NASA that with enough thrust even pigs can fly. However, > no > reactively propulsed hog is likely to make it to an orbit all on its > own.
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