> On Aug 19, 2016, at 7:08 PM, Bryan Call <bc...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> There are a few features we are looking to remove in the ATS 7.0.0 release.  
> If you are using these features and require them, please respond to this 
> email.  We also need to have people that are willing to invest time and fix 
> some of the bugs for these features.   Your feedback is very important!
> 
> ICP (Internet Cache Protocol) is currently not working in ATS.  ICP is an 
> Informational RFC (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2187) that has some known 
> flaws since it doesn’t share header information to the peer.  It would be 
> preferable to have HTCP (Hyper Text Caching Protocol 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2756) support instead.

I’m +1 on removing this, unless someone steps up as an active ICP developer and 
user in the ATS community. ICP is indeed a seriously flawed protocol, and 
putting efforts into HTCP would be time much better spent.

Cheers,

— Leif

> 
> The proposal is to disable the configuration options for ICP for now, so it 
> can’t be enabled.  It might be helpful to keep the code in ATS for someone 
> that would like to convert it into HTCP.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> -Bryan
> 
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