[foms] WebM Manifest

[Pierre-Yves KEREMBELLEC]

>> I agree to disagree here: the first origin server may implement some dynamic chunk/fragmentation intelligence because
>> it's under the content provider control, and generally backed-up by a first level of CDN proxies. It doesn't break the
>> "dumb public internet network" rule (from any perspective but the origin's, the chunks are just simple separate documents
>> with unique URL).
> 
> I'm trying to understand how you see this working. Are you saying that
> on the first origin server there are only non-chunked, complete files,
> but there is a server plugin that creates chunks on the fly for
> pre-defined URLs as per the manifest that is given to UAs.

Yes (the plugin just being here to avoid zillions of files at the origin).

> However, non-first origin servers distribute chunked versions only since
> that is what the general internet can work with.

Yes.

> Finally, servers in CDNs would also have the server plugin implemented and
> run on non-chunked files to provide the chunking on the fly.

No, servers in CDNs would behave like other non-origin serves: pure dump
HTTP caches.

Regards,
Pierre-Yves