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From: "Matthew Petach" <mpetach@netflight.com>
He rants about Netflix generating huge amounts of traffic and refusing to allow ISPs to cache it; and then goes on to grumble that Netflix is trying to force them to host caching boxes. Does he love caching, or hate caching? I really can't tell. Netflix is offering to provide you the cache boxes *for FREE* so that you can cache the data in your network; isn't that exactly what he wanted, in his first sentence? Why is it that two sentences later, free Netflix cache boxes are suddenly an evil that must be avoided, no matter how much Netflix may try to force them on you?
I'm sorry. I think someone forgot to take their coherency meds before writing that paragraph.
If you like caching, you should be happy when someone offers to give you caching boxes for FREE. If you don't like caching, you shouldn't bitch about inefficient it is to have traffic that isn't being cached.
Trying to play both sides of the issue like that in the same paragraph is just...dizzying.
No; it's the common result of deciding that you know what the end game ought to be -- which end-game *you want* -- and then trying to fit the rhetoric underneath that result. Cognitive dissonance is a *bitch*. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274