Hi Patrik,
Patrik Fältström wrote:
At 17.29 -0700 2000-04-07, Peter Deutsch wrote:
LD is intended to sit in front of a cluster of
cache engines containing similar data, performing automatic
distribution of incoming requests among the multiple caches. It does
this by intercepting the incoming IP packets intended for a specific
IP address and multiplexing it among the caches.
What you are doing is giving a product to the service provider, which
is the one which owns the services which you load balance between.
In the case of a transparent proxy which is discussed in this thread,
the interception is done neither by the service provider (i.e. CNN or
whoever) nor by the customer, and neither of them are informed about
what is happening.
That is a big difference.
I agree, and would welcome a BCP document pointing out this distinction
and explaining why the later is harmful. Banning publication of
technologies a priori (as I argue elsewhere) wont stop the technology
being developed, wont stop the practice and just leads to the IETF
abdicating it role as a meeting point for technical innovation.
- peterd