Re: forwarding cache requests

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>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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