Re: Transparent Vs WCCP

At 05:18 20/07/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Yay!
>
>Glad to see Cisco will be open sourcing WCCP v2 soon :)

They've just published the spec for WCCP2 as an Internet Draft:

>>To: IETF-Announce:;
>>Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-wilson-wrec-wccp-v2-00.txt
>>
>>
>>A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>>directories.
>>
>>
>> Title : Web Cache Coordination Protocol V2.0
>> Author(s) : M. Cieslak, D. Forster, G. Tiwana, R. Wilson
>> Filename : draft-wilson-wrec-wccp-v2-00.txt
>> Pages : 44
>> Date : 14-Jul-00
>>
>>This document describes version 2.0 of the Web Cache Coordination
>>Protocol (WCCP). The WCCP V2.0 protocol specifies interactions between
>>one or more routers and one or more web-caches. The purpose of the
>>interaction is to establish and maintain the transparent redirection
>>of selected types of traffic flowing through a group of routers. The
>>selected traffic is redirected to a group of web-caches with the aim
>>of optimising resource usage and lowering response times.
>>The protocol does not specify any interaction between the web-caches
>>within a group or between a web-cache and a web-server.
>>
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Received on Thu Jul 20 2000 - 04:46:00 MDT