[2927] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: topological closeness....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Mon May 13 21:58:16 1996
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 18:55:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9605140106.AA00132@butler.ncube.com>
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> "Public cacheing" has little merit, as efficiency of
> cacheing decreases when covered population grows
> beyond some threshold (i.e when diversity of requests
> overwhelms the cacheing capacity -- process better
> known as "thrashing").
>
> On the other side, small populations do not produce
> aggregatable demand patterns.
>
> I.e. it looks like that ISP-provided cache servers would
> be optimal.
Especially so since ISP's have the opportunity to do social engineering on
their users by maintaining a "What's HOT" page on their server with daily
updates. If you can get people to check in on your WWW reviews first then
you have a much greater chance of getting cache hits.
Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022
Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049
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