[110906] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Wed Jan 21 16:52:19 2009
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:52:07 +0900
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <497795AB.9010900@foobar.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> This doesn't provide feed-back to the content distributors on partial
> downloads, etc - which is useful information to content providers, if
> you're into data mining end-user browsing habits. In the specific case of
> Youtube, of course I don't know that they do this, but I'd be surprised if
> they didn't.
If they'd like that included as a side-channel for certain response types,
then they could ask. Its not like caches don't store per-connection information
like that already.. :)
Adrian
