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draft-ietf-cdi-known-request-routing



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        RFC 3568

        Title:      Known Content Network (CN) Request-Routing
                    Mechanisms
        Author(s):  A. Barbir, B. Cain, R. Nair, O. Spatscheck
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       July 2003
        Mailbox:    abbieb@nortelnetworks.com, bcain@storigen.com,
                    nair_raj@yahoo.com, spatsch@research.att.com
        Pages:      19
        Characters: 42443
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:  None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-cdi-known-request-routing-03.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3568.txt


This document presents a summary of Request-Routing techniques that
are used to direct client requests to surrogates based on various 
policies and a possible set of metrics.  The document covers
techniques that were commonly used in the industry on or before
December 2000.  In this memo, the term Request-Routing represents
techniques that is commonly called content routing or content
redirection.  In principle, Request-Routing techniques can be
classified under: DNS Request-Routing, Transport-layer
Request-Routing, and Application-layer Request-Routing.

This document is a product of the Content Distribution Internetworking
Working Group of the IETF.

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