Internet Data Transfer

Nirja Tolia, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Andersen, Swapnil Patil, "An Architecture for Internet Data Transfer"

Principles

• separating content negotiation from data transfer (motivation: 70% of Internet traffic is bulk transfer)
  
• common interface between various applications and transfer service architecture, application developer does not need to reinvent transfer service for each new application
  
• Figure 3 explains how the application works in the DOT framework. The application calls the GTC for the data transfer

Data transfer methods can even include physically moving hard disks. One benefit is that the same data can be cached across different applications like Web and electronic email.