RE: WPAD - New Network Caching Standard Proposed by Inkotomi & Microsoft (fwd)

[Nottingham, Mark (Australia)]

IE5 supports it, and Netscape 5 appears to be doing something along the
same lines. 

The draft is here:

http://eggplant.rte.microsoft.com/wpad/




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Daviel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 1998 11:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: WPAD - New Network Caching Standard Proposed by Inkotomi &
> Microsoft (fwd)
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> 
> Anyone seen this/already discussed it?
> (I confess to not reading every squid post, but don't see anything
> likely in the subject lines recently).
> 
> I was just looking for the supposed Internet Draft but only 
> found the CARP
> one draft-vinod-carp-v1-03.txt
> 
> I suppose that if it goes ahead as an open (IETF-published) 
> protocol that
> Squid can be tweaked to announce itself, whatever.. 
> 
> (for what it's worth, the @Home network uses DHCP to assign 
> ip address and
> domain then sets up "mail", "proxy" etc. on the local 
> subdomain, then a
> proxy.pac script at http://proxy )
> 
> Andrew Daviel
> TRIUMF/Vancouver Webpages
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:00:11 -0500 (EST)
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> Subject: New Network Caching Standard Proposed by Inkotomi & Microsoft
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> NEW NETWORK CACHING STANDARD PROPOSED BY INKTOMI, MICROSOFT,
> REALNETWORKS AND SUN
> Inktomi, Microsoft, RealNetworks, and Sun Microsystems announced
> a new Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol (WPAD) that is designed to
> automatically locate caches and services on the network.  The
> companies said WPAD builds upon DNS, DHCP, and SLP standards to
> provide a clear method to connect client applications with the
> appropriate servers.  By moving data to the edges of the network,
> a cache-based, distributed data architecture would save bandwidth
> and insulate the network from traffic spikes caused by event-driven
> surfing. WPAD is proposed as a software alternative to existing
> cache transparency solutions that utilize routing or switching
> equipment.  Microsoft has already integrated WPAD into the beta
> version of Internet Explorer 5.  RealNetworks expects to support
> the protocol in future versions of its G2 product line.
> The companies plan to submit WPAD as an Internet Draft to the
> Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
> http://www.inktomi.com/new/press/wpad.html
> Inktomi, December 16, 1998
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> INKTOMI PUBLISHES CACHING PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
> Inktomi published a performance benchmark report for its carrier-
> class Traffic Server network cache.  Inktomi now supports 1,059
> operations per second on a single Sun Microsystems server with a
> 50% cache hit rate.  A new software update also adds support for
> Cisco Systems' Web Cache Control Protocol (WCCP) for direct
> interoperability with Cisco IOS routers in the network.  Inktomi's
> major customers include America Online, BellSouth.net, @Home
> Network, DIGEX, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, PSINet and
> Telenor/Nextel.  Performance figures are posted online.
> http://www.inktomi.com/new/press/inkbench98.html
> Inktomi, December 16, 1998
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> AMCC OFFERS OC-48 SONET/SDH/ATM CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY DEVICE
> Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) announced a SONET/SDH/ATM OC-48
> 2.5 Gbps Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) device capable of operating
> without an external reference clock.  The device is targeted for
> use by designers of optical modules and DWDM applications.
> http://www.amcc.com/
> AMCC, December 14, 1998
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