At 11:34 AM 03/27/2001 -0500, George@orwellian.org wrote:
Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> advertised: # # http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2001_register&docid=01-7497-filed
Really, Declan. First, there was waiting for DoubleClick at your site. Now, you are releasing articles via an URL at another "DoubleClick" type site, akamaitech.net?
Akamai isn't a DoubleClick type of service - it's a distributed caching system that allows web sites to get better performance by caching static web content on large ISPs and other sites likely to be nearer to readers than the content owner's web site. Akamai _could_ do detailed who's-reading-what tracking if they wanted to (I don't know if they do), but their basic objective is to ship pages fast and bill the page owners for bandwidth.