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Re: [arch-d] caches, was deprecating Postel's principle - considered harmful

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 10 May 2019 21:48 UTC

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In article <CAMm+LwgrVQtjLuwCyeyFpEzNzLwnYhoMjc0POdZSE8MwtetioA@mail.gmail.com>,
Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> wrote:
>to serve it. Back in 1994, caching proxy servers were essential
>infrastructure needed to make the Web work. That isn't the case now. In
>fact TLS-everywhere is rapidly making them obsolete.

Seems to me they've been replaced by Akamai and other CDNs.
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