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What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet
Valdis,
You agree that the CDN content is temporary, no? That is the definition of processes used by an ISP providing pure transport services.
-mel via cell
> On Aug 5, 2019, at 11:36 PM, Valdis KlÄ?tnieks <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 06:15:36 -0000, Mel Beckman said:
>
>> Not really. The customer provides the content on its own servers. The CDN
>> simply redistributes the content via temporary caching. It�s not a web hosting
>> provider. The CDN _customer_ hosts the content.
>
> That's an... interesting.. interpretation. Most people would see it as the CDN
> doing the hosting, and the customer *providing* the content to be hosted.
>
> Do you also believe that your outbox is hosting the e-mail I'm replying to, and
> all the MTAs that got involved are just temporary caching? Or did you provide
> a copy of the mail, and request that the MTAs distribute it?
>
> (Also, if the CDN isn't a web hosting provider, why is it able to serve up data
> on an http connection? Hint - at one time, almost the entire web was static
> content, and even today a lot of it is file data not javascript and css. ;)