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Title : Requirements for a Resource Update Protocol
Author(s) : M. Hamilton, I. Cooper
Filename : draft-ietf-webi-rup-reqs-00.txt
Pages : 14
Date : 23-Feb-01
This document seeks to establish the requirements for a Resource
Update Protocol which may be used in conjunction with World-Wide Web
intermediary systems such as caching proxies and surrogate servers
(proxy accelerators) to facilitate cache coherence and
interoperability. It is envisaged that RUP will include invalidation
of previously cached objects as a key feature, but not be limited to
this functionality. The main goal is to enable proxy caching and
content distribution of large amounts of frequently changing web
objects, where periodically revalidating objects one by one is
unacceptable in terms of performance and/or cache consistency.
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