akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Wed Feb 12 19:31:13 UTC 2020

(as an aside) Some of this timed & controlled distribution (by the content originator) should be possible using IETF Content Delivery Network Interconnection (CDNI) standards - see https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/cdni/documents/. The initial RFC 6707 provides some background - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6707.

But I think folks are correct that the issue may be more that a given gaming device was turned off at night (though no reason that device could not pre-cache the content from the source). In any case, there should be a better way to address this. The Internet will see more and more of these downloads and smoothing the impact out seems prudent for all involved.

Jason

On 2/12/20, 11:59 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Chris Adams" <nanog-bounces at nanog.org on behalf of cma at cmadams.net> wrote:

    I think security is probably the sticking point for this.  Content
    owners don't want anybody having direct access to their files, and as
    more content is distributed over HTTPS, content distributors don't wany
    anbody having access to their certificates.
    --
    Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net>