Fifth International World Wide Web Conference
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)