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Ok I am not clear then, but I’m less clear after your comment! In a public cache, who would you want to decide who has access? Is simply saying “anyone who pay

Ok I am not clear then, but I’m less clear after your comment! In a public cache, who would you want to decide who has access? Is simply saying “anyone who pays has access” enough to qualify as public? if so, then I agree and this was my (possibly poorly phrased) intention in the original comment. But imo the restaurant model is also fine; in most cases people have access and it works.

lisper 6y ago
> Is simply saying “anyone who pays has access” enough to qualify as public? No because someone has to set the price, which is just an indirect method of controlling who has access. > the restaurant model is also fine It works for restaurants because there is competition. The whole point here is that web crawling/caching is a natural monopoly. A better analogy here would be Apple's app store, or copyrighted standards with the force of law [1]. These nominally follow the "anyone who pays has access" model but they are not public, and the result is the same set of problems. [1] https://www.thebrandprotectionblog.com/public-laws-private-standards-copyright-fair-use/ https://www.thebrandprotectionblog.com/public-laws-private-s...