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Re: Some comments on draft-beck-opes-esfnep-01.txt

2000-12-04 18:44:22
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 04:57:01PM -0800, Ian Cooper wrote:
Some general comments, hopefully constructive :) :

Throughout the document reference is made to caching proxies being used as 
the platform on which services will be offered.  While the majority of such 
boxes deployed today probably do act primarily as content stores, and they 
provide some obvious benefits where caching is practicable, there is 
certainly no requirement for them to be *caching* proxies.  (And one could 
argue that caching, at even the simplest level, might be provided as a 
service rather than as an intrinsic part of the platform.)

At the risk of being shot at, I'll point out (again) that they don't
have to be proxies, either... value can be added in surrogates and
gateways as well. The best term would be intermediary.

Cheers,




-- 
Mark Nottingham, Research Scientist
Akamai Technologies (San Mateo, CA)