ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources

scalabilityOfURIAccess-58

Scalability of URI Access to Resources

State:
OPEN
Product:
Raised by:
Daniel Appelquist
Opened on:
2007-08-22
Description:
At the 13 Aug 2007 telcon, the TAG resolved[1] to create a new issue to track the problems associated with accessing popular URIs. This issue arose as a result of discussing Ted Guild's request for a "best practices"[2] document on caching.

Web architecture advocates identifying important resources with URIs, most often http: URIs. But when a resource is very popular and its use is associated with attempts to get a representation, use of http: URIs can lead *in practice* to a crippling volume of traffic on particular web servers. In principle, the web has mechanisms to cope with this problem, but it remains a real problem in practice nevertheless.

The TAG will consider attempt to determine what, if any, recommendations, guidelines, best practices, or technology changes would help alleviate the practical problems associated with the scalability of URI access.

Be seeing you,
norm

[1] http://www.w3.org/2007/08/13-tagmem-minutes.html
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2007Jul/0200.html

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  2. Re: Agenda for TAG teleconference of 26 January 2012 (from dan@bluevia.com on 2012-01-26)
  3. Re: Agenda for TAG teleconference of 26 January 2012 (from amy@w3.org on 2012-01-25)
  4. Agenda for TAG teleconference of 26 January 2012 (from nrm@arcanedomain.com on 2012-01-24)
  5. Draft minutes of the 8-10 February 2011 TAG F2F Meeting are now available (from nrm@arcanedomain.com on 2011-02-21)
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  7. Draft minutes for telcon of 2011-01-27 available (from jar@creativecommons.org on 2011-02-15)
  8. Stable agenda for TAG F2F of 8-10 February 2011 (from nrm@arcanedomain.com on 2011-02-05)
  9. Re: API Minimization and User Control [was: Re: DanA: what are you likely to have ready for the F2F] (from Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com on 2011-02-02)
  10. scalabilityOfURIAccess-58 (from ylafon@w3.org on 2011-02-02)
  11. API Minimization and User Control [was: Re: DanA: what are you likely to have ready for the F2F] (from Daniel.Appelquist@vodafone.com on 2011-02-02)
  12. Re: DanA: what are you likely to have ready for the F2F (from ashok.malhotra@oracle.com on 2011-02-02)
  13. Re: DanA: what are you likely to have ready for the F2F (from Daniel.Appelquist@vodafone.com on 2011-02-02)
  14. Re: DanA: what are you likely to have ready for the F2F (from jar@creativecommons.org on 2011-01-31)
  15. Preliminary version of the Agenda for the TAG F2F Meeting of 8-10 February 2011 (from nrm@arcanedomain.com on 2011-01-30)
  16. Re: Draft minutes of TAG telcon of 2011-01-20 available (from nrm@arcanedomain.com on 2011-01-30)
  17. Draft minutes of TAG telcon of 2011-01-20 available (from ylafon@w3.org on 2011-01-30)
  18. Re: DanA: what are you likely to have ready for the F2F (from ashok.malhotra@oracle.com on 2011-01-30)
  19. Ted, would you be able to join us for a few minutes at the upcoming TAG F2F? (from nrm@arcanedomain.com on 2011-01-29)
  20. DanA: what are you likely to have ready for the F2F (from nrm@arcanedomain.com on 2011-01-29)
  21. Telcon minutes 2010-10-07 (from jar@creativecommons.org on 2010-10-13)
  22. Update on TAG F2F Agenda Planning (from nrm@arcanedomain.com on 2010-10-11)
  23. Telcon minutes: 2010-09-30 (from ylafon@w3.org on 2010-10-05)
  24. Draft minutes of TAG F2F of 7-9 June 2010 (from nrm@arcanedomain.com on 2010-06-16)
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  26. Re: Draft minutes from 20 May 2010 (from nrm@arcanedomain.com on 2010-05-26)
  27. Preparation for this week's TAG teleconference: F2F Agenda Preparation (from nrm@arcanedomain.com on 2010-05-19)
  28. Re: Minutes for 13 May TAG meeting (from jar@creativecommons.org on 2010-05-18)
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  34. TAG telcon minutes for 25 Feb 2010 (from jar@creativecommons.org on 2010-03-02)
  35. Re: TAG telcon: Draft minutes of call on 2010-02-11 (from noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com on 2010-02-18)
  36. TAG telcon: Draft minutes of call on 2010-02-11 (from ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) on 2010-02-16)
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  38. Re: TAG telcon: Draft minutes of call on 2010-02-11 (from noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com on 2010-02-16)
  39. TAG telcon: Draft minutes of call on 2010-02-11 (from ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) on 2010-02-16)
  40. Agenda for TAG teleconference of 11 Feb 2010 (from noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com on 2010-02-10)
  41. suggestion for 19 Nov agenda (from connolly@w3.org on 2009-11-16)
  42. Setting TAG Priorities - Review of discussion and planning to date (from noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com on 2009-03-22)
  43. Agenda for TAG Face-to-Face Meeting, 3-5 March 2009 (Redwood Shores, CA) (from noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com on 2009-02-25)
  44. Approved minutes for TAG telcon of 2009-01-29 (from noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com on 2009-02-05)
  45. Re: Draft minutes for TAG telcon of 2009-01-29 (from ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) on 2009-02-05)
  46. Re: TAG Telcon Agenda for 29th Jan 2009: httpRedirections-57; selfDescribingWeb-51; errorHandling-20; scalabilityOfURIAccess-58; XMLVersioning-41; Issues Pending Review; Overdue Action Items. (from john.kemp@nokia.com on 2009-01-29)
  47. Re: TAG Telcon Agenda for 29th Jan 2009: httpRedirections-57; selfDescribingWeb-51; errorHandling-20; scalabilityOfURIAccess-58; XMLVersioning-41; Issues Pending Review; Overdue Action Items. (from ashok.malhotra@oracle.com on 2009-01-27)
  48. TAG Telcon Agenda for 29th Jan 2009: httpRedirections-57; selfDescribingWeb-51; errorHandling-20; scalabilityOfURIAccess-58; XMLVersioning-41; Issues Pending Review; Overdue Action Items. (from skw@hp.com on 2009-01-27)
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  50. TAG Telcon Agenda: 19th June 2008: New Items? (Widgets URI Scheme); scalabilityOfURIAccess-38; XMLVersioning-41;tagSoupIntegration-54;Action Item Review (from skw@hp.com on 2008-06-18)
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  52. Some questions about declarations, was: Re: AWWW Mechanism for Interpreting use of RDF Symbols was - Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from alanruttenberg@gmail.com on 2007-09-12)
  53. RE: AWWW Mechanism for Interpreting use of RDF Symbols was - Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from dbooth@hp.com on 2007-09-11)
  54. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from phayes@ihmc.us on 2007-09-07)
  55. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from chimezie@gmail.com on 2007-09-07)
  56. AWWW Mechanism for Interpreting use of RDF Symbols was - Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from chimezie@gmail.com on 2007-09-07)
  57. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from wangxiao@musc.edu on 2007-09-07)
  58. RE: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from skw@hp.com on 2007-09-07)
  59. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from chimezie@gmail.com on 2007-09-06)
  60. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from ndw@nwalsh.com on 2007-09-06)
  61. Draft Minutes for TAG call on 30th Aug 2007 (from skw@hp.com on 2007-09-04)
  62. TAG Telcon Agenda for Thursday 30th August 2007 (from skw@hp.com on 2007-08-29)
  63. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from chimezie@gmail.com on 2007-08-28)
  64. RE: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from skw@hp.com on 2007-08-28)
  65. URI declarations [Was RE: Scalability of URI Access to Resources] (from dbooth@hp.com on 2007-08-28)
  66. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from chimezie@gmail.com on 2007-08-27)
  67. RE: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from phayes@ihmc.us on 2007-08-27)
  68. RE: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from dbooth@hp.com on 2007-08-25)
  69. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from chimezie@gmail.com on 2007-08-24)
  70. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from cowan@ccil.org on 2007-08-23)
  71. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from ndw@nwalsh.com on 2007-08-23)
  72. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from ndw@nwalsh.com on 2007-08-23)
  73. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from phayes@ihmc.us on 2007-08-22)
  74. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from chimezie@gmail.com on 2007-08-22)
  75. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com on 2007-08-22)
  76. RE: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from dorchard@bea.com on 2007-08-22)
  77. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from ndw@nwalsh.com on 2007-08-22)
  78. Re: ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from phayes@ihmc.us on 2007-08-22)
  79. ISSUE-58: Scalability of URI Access to Resources (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2007-08-22)

Related notes:

W3C's Excessive DTD Traffic; Ted Guild blog post 8-Feb
http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic

Ralph Swick, 9 Feb 2008, 22:25:45

DanA accepted shepherd role 11 Feb

Dan Connolly, 11 Feb 2010, 18:27:11

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