Re: A More Aggressive Approach to Caching

From: Manar Hussain <manar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 21:44:43 +0000 (GMT)

>Last night I came up with another way of dealing with "cache unfriendly"
>sites.
>
>The cache could keep track of what sort of hit rates it gets for each
>server hostname. In situations where bandwidth is scarce, the low-hit-rate
>sites could be given lower priority or "quality of service."

I think this is a very valid tactic to have in hand - BUT I would be very
dissappointed if such actions were taken without significant attempts at
bringing "offenders" into the debate and taking on board their concerns. I
trust my faith that this would be so is well-placed.

Manar
Received on Tue Dec 17 1996 - 13:54:58 MST

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