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RFC 3568: Known Content Network (CN) Request-Routing Mechanisms

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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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Document ID
RFC3568
Published
July 2003
Authors
A. Barbir; B. Cain; R. Nair; O. Spatscheck
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
IETF
Area
app
Pages
19
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RFC 8996

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