Cache Workshop '97: Call for Participation

The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research is sponsoring a two-day workshop on Web Caching June 9 & 10, 1997 in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Participants are required to submit a short position paper on some subject related to Web caching. Selected participants will be asked to make a presentation of their work. We are primarily interested in real-world experiences. Some potential topics are:

• Legal, Economic, and Socio-Political
  • Copyright issues and proposed solutions.
  • Charging models.
  • Content filtering.
  • Hit Metering -- Experiences and thoughts.
• Measurement and Analysis
  • Are cache hierarchies worth the trouble? Do upper-level caches provide enough benefit to warrant their operation?
  • Measurement tools -- how can you tell if a cache is helping or hurting?
• Protocols and Services
  • Multicast -- how can Web caches best utilize multicast?
  • Internet Cache Protocol -- Should ICP evolve towards object location or policy expression?
  • Using a proxy/cache to provide different qualities of service.
  • Modelling cache requests -- predictions for prefetching.
  • Push models.
• Optimization, Configuration, and Operation
  • Transparent proxying.
  • Cache-routing -- Techniques to locate the nearest/best instance of an object.
  • Easier configuration or tighter access controls?
  • Using a cache as a Web server front-end.
  • Operating system issues.

Papers should be around 2-3 pages in length and submitted no later than April 25, 1997. We will gladly accept papers in text, postscript, or HTML. Please mail papers and/or URLs to cache-workshop@nlanr.net.

We would like to have an early estimate on the number of attendees. If you plan on submitting a paper, please let us know ahead of time.

For more information, please see the workshop home page at http://www.nlanr.net/Cache/Workshop97/