@misc{rfc3568, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 3568, howpublished = {RFC 3568}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC3568}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3568}, author = {Storigen Systems and Oliver Spatscheck and Abbie Barbir and Raj Nair}, title = {{Known Content Network (CN) Request-Routing Mechanisms}}, pagetotal = 19, year = 2003, month = jul, abstract = {This document presents a summary of Request-Routing techniques that are used to direct client requests to surrogates based on various policies and a possible set of metrics. The document covers techniques that were commonly used in the industry on or before December 2000. In this memo, the term Request-Routing represents techniques that is commonly called content routing or content redirection. In principle, Request-Routing techniques can be classified under: DNS Request-Routing, Transport-layer Request-Routing, and Application-layer Request-Routing. This memo provides information for the Internet community.}, }