Re: forwarding cache requests

Rainer Klute (klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
Thu, 24 Mar 1994 09:34:40 --100

>1) "forwarders": if you want to reduce e.g. national and international
> traffic, one could imagine a big national cache, which acts as proxy
> to international sites that could be used by local proxy or cache
> servers.

This would require a very tough and accurate accounting mechanism,
because the managers of the "big national cache" have to be able to
bill their clients for the transfer costs, especially the
international ones.

Best regards
Rainer Klute

Dipl.-Inform. IRB - immer richtig beraten
Rainer Klute EXUG - European X User Group
Universitdt Dortmund, IRB
D-44221 Dortmund

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