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Re: Google enables caching in users' browsers but not by enterprises or ISPs
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:07:19 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: June 15, 2009 7:26:47 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net>Subject: Re: [IP] Google enables caching in users' browsers but not by enterprises or ISPs
Dave, Re the author of the outburst aimed at Google included below ... as Ronald Reagan famously said, "There you go again ... " Let's start with the fact that the blog posting being referred to by the author below is *not* from an official Google blog of any kind -- a fact that is clearly noted on the blog itself. The statement about the caching achievement, etc. was that of an independent observer, not Google. Oops! Next, while "complicated" caching topologies can of course be developed, it is not a simple matter to just let commodity cache software or standard cache boxes start sharing YouTube Videos among different users of an ISP, without disrupting important aspects of YouTube on which users depend. An obvious example is maintaining correct statistics on user playback operations, which are important to amateur and professional video creators alike (Google provides much of this data to video submitters via their free "Insight" service). Another factor is access control. Not all YouTube videos are public. The fact that one user of an ISP has permission to play a particular YouTube video doesn't mean that all other subscribers of that ISP have that same permission. Properly designed "end-to-end" caching systems could presumably be developed and deployed to deal with such issues. But ISPs that antagonistically promote the purposeful disruption of Google/YouTube services in the manner proposed by the author below, would seem to be suggesting that they are uninterested in cooperative approaches to such technical issues in any case. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () vortex com ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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