Re: Proposed charter for CDNP working group

[Stephen Thomas <stephen.thomas@transnexus.com>]

At 01:24 PM 2000-11-10 -0500, Mark Day wrote:
>This is a heavily revised version of what I sent to the IESG as a
>placeholder almost 2 months ago. Comments and suggested edits are welcome.

Just a minor tweak below

>[...] Finally, the accounting system records and
>aggregates information necessary for allocating costs to customers of the
>CDN.

I'd suggest that accounting metrics ought to be useful for a lot of reasons 
other than allocating costs. Depending on what ends up being accounted, 
content providers, for example, may want to use these metrics to gauge 
audience size, end user demographics, page "stickiness," etc..

Stephen

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