Andy, It would be lovely if you read my email to the end first!
On 14/04/2008, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brian Butterworth wrote: > > 1. so the great evil here is probably the BT wholesale > > > provision which seems to be behaving somewhat monopolisticly, which is a > > tendency that I know BT has. > > > Abuse of dominant position is prohibited under Section 18 of the > Competition Act 1998[1]. If BT are "behaving somewhat monopolisticly" > shouldn't Ofcom do something about it? > > > > 2. Use transparent or non-transparent PROXY SERVERS. > > > As stated earlier it is unsafe to cache protocols you can't understand. > Thus the BBC is blocking the ISPs from using this course of action. > The BBC however should immediately cease this practice and use a > protocol that ISPs can cache if they want. (HTTP has support for caching > built into it, how forward thinking of them). > > > > but my experience of them is that transparent proxies reduce overall > > performance because they need to get in the way of each and every HTTP > > transaction. > > > I wouldn't have thought that the small increase in latency would be > noticeable for a several hundred megabyte file. > > > > 3. Store and forward: Locate MIRROR SERVERS inside the ISP network. > > This seems a much better idea. > > > It sounds a lot like some kind of Cache. And another question is *who* > is going to pay for the servers that speak RTMP? This sounds like some > kind of revenue driving scheme for the BBC's commercial friends. > > > > the ISP provide the BBC with rack > > space 'inside' their networks for mirror servers. > > > A generic cache would be much more scalable, if the servers only mirror > BBC data then this does nothing to solve problems with other sites. > > How does one mirror this data? Will it be available via rsync? Will it > be mirrorable by *anyone* or does the BBC intend to pick and chose > commercial ISPs to provide better access to. Again very shaky ground. > > > > - change the main BBC iPlayer to redirect requests for the content to > > the Mirror Server located in the ISPs network. > > > Really unscalable, how is the BBC going to know which ISPs have mirrors > and which do not? This would require each ISP to notify the BBC. Just > seems wrong. Having every Content Provider have to speak to every ISP > seems to go against the core of the Internet. > > If a pipe on the Internet is not running at 100% it is being underused! > > Andy > > [1] > < > http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/ukpga_19980041_en_2#pt1-ch2-pb2-l1g18 > > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
