Re: Why aren't ISPs providing stratum 1 NTP service?

In article <hot.mailing-lists.nanog-Pine.BSI.3.93.960719091042.14736C-100000@sidhe.memra.com>, Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> wrote:

And heavily used WWW servers are another thing that could benefit from aligning themselves with the topology.

The protocols don't support this cleanly. So far nothing I've seen would allow a single URL to be used to access the "nearest" server. Until something like that exists (i.e. the end users don't need to know a thing about network topology) it seems pointless to align WWW servers with the topology. Your suggested use of redirects just complicates things -- consider how the URLs would end up looking in a search engine. Dean