Re: What to call that direction/redirection/routing thing

[Barron Housel <housel@cisco.com>]

I give too. bch

doug potter wrote:

> I agree. drp
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cdn@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-cdn@ops.ietf.org]On Behalf Of
> Fred Douglis
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 12:10 PM
> To: Mark Day
> Cc: cdn@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: What to call that direction/redirection/routing thing
>
> I think I missed the call when the name changed to 'steering' and I, too,
> was
> taken aback by the change.
>
> I vote for redirection.  In the context of CDN peering, one fields a request
> from a client, and handles it in one's own CDN, or REDIRECTs it to another
> CDN.
> In that case, there is a change of direction: the client first goes to CDN 1
> and then goes to CDN 2.
>
> Fred