RE: CDNP naming

[Eric Dean <eric@crystalballinc.com>]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Eric Dean wrote:

> It is for this reason that I may not in favor for exclusively proposing a 
> DNS-based request mapping method unless everyone uses the exact same
> surrogates with exact capabilities.

Just to be clear in what my concerns are here.  If I'm a PUBLISHER and my
CDN provider goes off and peers with all sorts of other CDNs then I may
have a few problems:
 
If all those CDN's do not have equivalent capabilities then I may be
forced to break up my content into little descriptive elements using DNS
as the only method. For example, I may have to creatively encode my
objects using a various hostnames like
   
small_objects.cdn.net
large_objects.cdn.net
gzip_objects.cdn.net
stream_objects.cdn.net
.
.
.

How else will a CDN, receiving only a DNS query, know whether to route the
request to a peered CDN with sufficient capabilities or not?