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Cache co-operation

Introduced in Harvest
Hand crafted co-operatives
Neighbo(u)r and parent caches
Communication through light-weight UDP protocol

But...
Need a unifying and complete protocol
Need to recognise clusters of machines
Broadcast queries do not scale
Hand-built co-operatives cumbersome


The UK (Academic) National Web Cache (N.Smith)