Harvest project
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Harvest was a DARPA funded research project by the Internet Research Task Force
Internet Research Task Force
The Internet Research Task Force focuses on longer term research issues related to the Internet while the parallel organization, the Internet Engineering Task Force , focuses on the shorter term issues of engineering and standards making...

 Research Group on Resource Discovery (IETF-RD) and hosted at the University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Colorado at Boulder
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 which provided a web cache
Web cache
A web cache is a mechanism for the temporary storage of web documents, such as HTML pages and images, to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived lag...

, developed standards such as the Internet Cache Protocol
Internet Cache Protocol
The Internet Cache Protocol is a protocol used for coordinating web caches. Its purpose is to find out the most appropriate location to retrieve a requested object from in the situation where multiple caches are in use at a single site...

 and Summary Object Interchange Format, and spawned many other technologies and software products.

After the conclusion of the project in 1996, development of the Harvest object cache was continued with the University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...

 releasing version 1.5. The open source squid cache
Squid cache
Squid is a proxy server and web cache daemon. It has a wide variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests; to caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources; to aiding security by filtering traffic...

 and commercial NetCache
NetCache
NetCache is a former web cache software product which was owned and developed by NetApp between 1997 and 2006, and a hardware product family incorporating the NetCache software.-History:...

 were both based on the Harvest object cache.

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