At 01:24 PM 2000-11-10 -0500, Mark Day wrote:
This is a heavily revised version of what I sent to the IESG as a
placeholder almost 2 months ago. Comments and suggested edits are welcome.
Just a minor tweak below
[...] Finally, the accounting system records and
aggregates information necessary for allocating costs to customers of the
CDN.
I'd suggest that accounting metrics ought to be useful for a lot of reasons
other than allocating costs. Depending on what ends up being accounted,
content providers, for example, may want to use these metrics to gauge
audience size, end user demographics, page "stickiness," etc..
Stephen
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