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rfc-3568

Known Content Network (CN) Request-Routing Mechanisms

A. Barbir, B. Cain, R. Nair, O. Spatscheck
date2003-07 streamIETF areaapp wgcdi statusINFORMATIONAL pages19 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3568 doi10.17487/RFC3568
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 memo provides information for the Internet community.

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