Recomended Reading

RFC's, Internet-Drafts, and protocol stuff

• RFC 959 File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
• RFC 1101 DNS Encoding of Network Names and Other Types
• RFC 1738 Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
• RFC 1945 HTTP/1.0
• RFC 2068 HTTP/1.1
• RFC 2109 HTTP State Management Mechanism
• RFC 2145 Use and Interpretation of HTTP Version Numbers
• RFC 2186 Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), version 2
• RFC 2187 Application of Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), version 2
• RFC 2227 Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTP
• SSL Tunnelling draft
• Access-restricted, HTTP/1.1 Cache Control Extension
• Fielding's original conditional GET proposal for http caching
• DRAFT: Notification for Proxy Caches
• DRAFT: Extended Log File Format
• DRAFT: Session Identification URI
• URN's
  • RFC 2168 Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using the Domain Name System
  • RFC 2169 A Trivial Convention for using HTTP in URN Resolution

Web sites, notes, lists

• IETF Web Caching and Replication (WREC) working group
• Harvest Cache
• Why web usage statistics are meaningless
• Refused Access Lists? Why Internet communications cannot be reliably blocked
• Load balancing/redundancy across server meshes
• Woj's links to caching info
• WorldGate
• World-Wide Web Caching
• Navigator Proxy Auto-Config File Format
• W3C's Overview of HTTP
• The CERN proxy
• A list of ``Cache Breakers''
• DESIRE's Web Cache Checklist
• ICM's Caching Survey - Results
• Australian Cache Stats, etc.
• Adaptive Web Caching project by Floyd, Zhang, and Jacobson.
• Prefetch caching with Wcol.
• Relais: cooperative caches for the World-Wide Web
• Wisconsin Proxy Benchmark 1.0, Jussara Almeida and Pei Cao.

Articles, Tech Reports, Conference Proceedings

Measurement, Modelling, Characterization

• Web Characterization at the W3C.
• Web traffic characterization: an assessment of the impact of caching documents from the NCSA's web server K Claffy, NLANR
• Characterizing Reference Locality in the WWW
• An Empirical Model of HTTP Network Traffic Bruce A. Mah, Proceedings of INFOCOM '97, Kobe, Japan, April 1997.
• Quantifying the Overall Impact of Caching and Replication in the Web M. Baentsch, et al.
• A Study of Internet Round-Trip Delay, Anurag Acharya and Joel Saltz
• Reducing overhead in flow-switched networks: An empirical study of web traffic, Anja Feldmann, Jennifer Rexford, and Ramon Caceres, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, April 1998, pp. 1205-1213.
• Web proxy caching: the devil is in the details, Ramon Caceres, Fred Douglis, Anja Feldmann, Gideon Glass, and Michael Rabinovich, 1998 Workshop on Internet Server Performance, June 1998, Madison, WI.

HTTP

• Initial HTTP/1.1 Performance Tests, pipelining, etc..
• TCP Behavior of a Busy Internet Server: Analysis and Improvements Hari Balakrishnan, et al.
• Key Differences between HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1, Balachander Krishnamurthy and Jeffrey C. Mogul and David M. Kristol. (To be presented at WWW-8, Toronto, May 1999)

Case Studies

• What can archives offer the web? (Hensa Www94)
• http://www.waikato.ac.nz/harvest/www5/Overview.html
• Caching on JANET - ACN Report
• New Zealand details on caching system, Donald Neal.

ICP

• ICP and the Squid Web Cache (compressed postscript).
• Summary Cache: A Scalable Wide-Area Web Cache Sharing Protocol, Li Fan, Pei Cao, Jussara Almeida, and Andrei Z. Broder.

Copyright

• Copyright Law on the Internet: The Special Problem of Caching and Copyright Protection, September 1995.
• Cache-22 Copying and storing Web pages is vital to the Internet's survival -- but is it legal? Eric Schlachter, Intellectual Propterty Magazine, August 1996.
• Turning On and Turning Off Can merely turning on a computer constitute copyright infringement? In the Ninth Circuit, yes. Ronald S. Katz and Janet Arnold Hart, Intellectual Property Magazine, Autumn 1995.
• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (October 8, 1998).
• DMCA Analysis by Johnathan Band; indicates that caching is mostly exempt from liability when certain conditions are met.

Not-Yet Classified

• Object Caching Environments for Applications and Network Services
• Replacement policies for a proxy cache
• Removal Policies in Network Caches for World-Wide Web Documents
• Measuring the Web
• Distributed Internet Cache, Dean Povey <dean@psy.uq.oz.au>
• New Metrics for New Media: Toward the Development of Web Measurement Standards
• Web Cache Coherence by Dingle and Partl
• Web caching by Dingle and Partl
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: An Approach to Building Large Internet Caches
• Proxy Caching That Estimates Page Load Delays, WWW6 proceedings.
• The Japan Cache Project: An Experiment on Domain Cache, WWW6 proceedings.
• Squid Proxy Analysis by David Marwood.
• The Case for Geographical Push Caching.
• An Analysis of Geographical Push-Caching.
• Using Predictive Prefetching to Improve World Wide Web Latency
• World-Wide Web Caching -- The Application level view of the Internet, M. Baentsch, et al.
• Dynamic Server Selection in the Internet, Mark E. Crovella and Robert L. Carter, Proceedings of the Third IEEE Workshop on the Architecture and Implementation of High Performance Communication Subsystems (HPCS'95), August 1995
• Fragmentation Considered Harmful
• Anonymity Loves Company
• Cost-Aware WWW Proxy Caching Algorithms, Pei Cao and Sandy Irani.
• Study of Piggyback Cache Validation for Proxy Caches in the WWW, Balachander Krishnamurthy and Craig Wills, Proceedings of the 1997 USENIX Symposium on Internet Technology and Systems, Monterey, California pp. 1--12, Dec 1997.
• Piggyback Server Invalidation for Proxy Cache Coherency, Balachander Krishnamurthy and Craig Wills, Proceedings of the WWW-7 Conference, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 185--194, April 1998.
• Rate of Change and other Metrics: a Live Study of the WWW, Fred Douglis, Anja Feldmann, Balachander Krishnamurthy Jeffrey Mogul, Proceedings of the 1997 USENIX Symposium on Internet Technology and Systems, Monterey, California, pp. 147--158, Dec 1997.
• Potential benefits of delta encoding and data compression for HTTP, Jeffrey Mogul, Fred Douglis, Anja Feldmann and Balachander Krishnamurthy, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '97, Cannes, France, pp. 181--194, August 1997.
• Improving End-to-End Performance of the Web Using Server Volumes and Proxy Filters. Edith Cohen, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Jennifer Rexford , Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM-98 Conference, Vancouver, Canada, September 1998.
• Key Differences between HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1
  Balachander Krishnamurthy and Jeffrey C. Mogul and David M. Kristol
  WWW-8, Toronto, May 1999
• PRO-COW: Protocol Compliance on the Web
  Balachander Krishnamurthy and Martin Arlitt
  AT&T Labs--Research Technical Memorandum #990803-05-TM
  Slides of talk presented at IETF plenary session (postscript)

Mailing lists, archives

• IRCACHE mail archive
• www-talk and www-http mail archives
• http-caching WG archive
• Squid-Users archive

Other Collections

• The Webbib digital library is an extensive online bibliography of literature relevant to distributed systems topics as they relate to the World Wide Web.

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