From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
To: accessnt@ozemail.com.au (Mark Neely)
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UTC Datetime: 1996-02-15 11:28:06 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 19:28:06 +0800
From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 19:28:06 +0800
To: accessnt@ozemail.com.au (Mark Neely)
Subject: Re: Off topic - research query
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Mark Neely wrote:
| As a side issue, I wanted to cover the "overhead"
| factor inherent in the TCP/IP (v4?) protocol
| which I understand is reduced under the proposed IPv.6 protocol.
Comer is the best text on IP, his third edition talks about
IPv6 as well as v4. Essentally, there was a some unneeded stuff in
IPv4 headers, which routers had to look at. The IPv6 headers are much
cleaner.
| I'd also like to discuss the "unfriendly" manner in which
| web browsers such as Netscape hog resources by sending multiple
| port access requests.
Our own Simon Spero has a paper entitled something like
'Optimizations for HTTP.' Its on the w3.org web server.
Speaking of HTTP-ng, I was thinking the other day about a
scheme for further optimization. It only works in the presense of
dnssec, which is moving forward.
When getting a URL, add a meta tag, which gives the web
server's idea of what the referenced hosts IP address (or its primary
NS) is. This could be a win because we need fewer calls to the root
name servers. Those calls tend to be short, (1 or 2 udp packets each
way), which need to be routed in a way that few other packets would
need to be. By eliminating them, we push all of the traffic regarding
a web host to its network.
This only works under DNSsec because otherwise I could say
http://www.microsoft.com/ meta-dns-A=140.174.1.3
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
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