By starting the first official cache-off test, a participant promises to complete the required test sequence and allows publication of all the results whatever they are. As usual, participants will have a chance to run unofficial experiments before starting an official sequence. No such checks will be performed during the cache-off. A product under test must be available for purchase within 3 month of the cache-off start date. Vendors agreed with Polyteam that such selections are usually meaningless.
Magazines are free to make such selections if they have to.
Each cache-off participant will be charged a participation fee. The fee will be based on number of PCs needed to simulate the required request rates. The proxies must set MSL value to at least 30 seconds , yielding 60 second 2MSL values. Polyteam may test MSL settings on proxies. Please note that many more issues were discussed.