Stephen Hahn wrote: > 3. Akamai isn't the only CDN in the world. It's not even the only > one Sun does business with--and all of them are interested in > doing compute-in-the-cloud. Assertions about GET versus POST for > CDNs are short-term assertions. More importantly, there is a > distinct pricing calculation to be made between directly-served > and CDN-served data that not every pkg(5) depot operator will wish > to make.
I think you're saying there that many different kinds of distribution mechanisms need to be supported. I would never say that we should design *for* Akamai, because next year we might well use a different download provider. However, Akamai is an example of a major download provider, and one that we *do* use, and so any solution should be designed to be compatible with it, and with any other mechanism that we can reasonably envision. To me, that suggests that the protocol needs to be as simple and standard as possible, so that it does not have to be reimplemented for each distribution mechanism. That in turn translates to "behave like a completely static file-oriented web server". (Perhaps some people will respond with "but it's all HTTP, and that's a standard!". That's an incomplete understanding. There are layers upon layers, and here there's another protocol layer on top of HTTP: the layer that defines the semantics of GET and POST operations and the URLs that they operate on. If you all understood that, sorry for the distraction.) _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
