-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Cooper [mailto:icooper(_at_)equinix(_dot_)com]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 1:10 AM
To: Michael W. Condry; ietf-openproxy(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Charter re-wording
Web-based service engines are sometimes identified as "edge"
servers,
which form an application-level overlay network on top of an
IP network.
They are explicitly addressed at IP level and terminate a transport
connection in a normal way. Thus, they do not interfere with the
end-to-end principle in RFC 1958.
This is a weak attempt at addressing the concerns over
"end-to-end", though
I agree it's very good to be explicit in identifying that the
OPES systems
are explicitly addressed.
caveat: I haven't read the full thread, so sorry this isn't exactly what is
being addressd
So, how you propose to do that? Offer OPES services explicitly addressing
them at the IP Layer. Are you talking about going back to putting HTTP Proxy
IP address on our browsers? So, if I have several OPES devices in my network
providing me diffrent services I would have to configure my client to use
HTTP: IP A
Video: IP B
Language Translation: IP C
Virus Scanning: IP D.
etc, etc
And if some of them fails should I "reroute" manually changing the
configuration or have more than one IP address?
regards,
Reinaldo Penno