[Iccrg] Transport layer caching

[Yuchung Cheng]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Pasi Sarolahti <pasi.sarolahti at iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mar 10, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Nestor Michael C. Tiglao wrote:
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>> I am interested about the Caching with TCP talk.  I'm doing work on transport layer caching applied to WSNs.  The attached paper could be relevant
>
> The Internet-draft related to this talk is available at
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sarolahti-irtf-catcp-00
>
> In brief, the idea is to label TCP segments with cachable data using a "Content Label" TCP option. These segments could then be cached and re-used across connections by segment caches in the network, to reduce the load at the original server.
>
This is an interesting proposal. Any data on the savings of this idea?
e.g. popular CDN servers etc.