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Inktomi's Traffic Server customers and other users of transparent
Transparent caching brings with it significant benefits to the ISPs and backbones who deploy it, but also to the
In this case, it brings a significant benefit to Digex, but hardly the customers of Digex. Bluntly, it potentially saves digex money when the use less of their infrestructure to serve the same amount of service to a client. I didn't say it was wrong, or bad, but lets be clear on who it is advantageous to.
dialup users, corporate customers and downstream ISPs who utilize those links. Cached content is delivered accurately
Accurately is a bone of contention. We've all seen what caching can do to time sensitive web-sites.
performance for non-HTTP protocols. Many people believe that large-scale caching is necessary and inevitable in order to scale the Internet into the future.
While it may be many people, they may all be wrong.
of cached content, and confidentiality/legal issues with
I didn'y see any mention of copyright infringement, which will be an issue at some point. Also, the fact that if I am caching my customers web-servers, they are potentially getting free service.
These two problems are examples of legacy issues. IP-based authentication is widely known to be a weak security measure.
But, this is irrelevant if people use it. Thats a simple point.
Most content providers have no such concerns, frankly. The problem
Hah! This is a silly statement. Not to mention, when sites are selling advertising based upon hits on thier site. Is there a way yet for the proxy to report back to the cached-site that is served a cached-copy of it's website?
of a scalable Internet, are confident that caching is becoming an integral part of the infrastructure, and provides many benefits to hosters, ISPs, backbones and surfers alike.
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