At 09:03 10/10/2000 +0200, Patrik Fältström wrote:
A list such as (but it should fit together):
- Distribution of data from origin server to copies within administrative
control of the owner of the data
- Distribution of data from origin server to copies outside of <above>
- Preloading / load on demand of caches
- Cache discovery
- Routing of client to closest site with data
- Switching of client to good server within site
or rather: - routing of client to closest WORKING site with data
- Billing / charging / statistics collection
more:
- user session state management
- TLS interaction
- authentication models for multi-sited servers (having all of them
configured with the same secret key is not optimal security-wise - loss of
one means loss of all)
- HTTP / HTML extensions for cache control
- Continuation of work on taxonomy
I know I shouldn't be bringing more tinder to the bonfire, but....
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