# Re: whois++ // was -- Re: URNs in the DNS

Peter Deutsch (peterd@bunyip.com)
Fri, 23 Jul 1993 13:02:50 -0400

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    From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>

    Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 13:02:50 -0400

    In-Reply-To: Martin Hamilton's message as of Jul 20, 16:10

    To: Martin Hamilton <M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk>, Rob Raisch <raisch@ora.com>

    Subject: Re: whois++ // was -- Re: URNs in the DNS

[ You wrote: ]

. . .
> FWIW, I might take a stab at a more, err... "lightweight" whois++
> implementation as I find the concepts it's based on very attractive
> (though I have reservations about centroids :-). This would
> probably be in Perl. Time to make a nuisance of myself in the
> WNILS group too, methinks!

As they say on one particularly irritating game show in
the U.S. "Come on down!" I'd really like to see several
different servers out ASAP and welcome feedback on what we
have so far.

As for your reservations about centroids, are they
concerning the specific filtering mechanism, or are they
concerning the general idea of propagating indexing
information up multiple trees from the bottom up? I'm not
convinced myself that the proposed centroids mechanism of
sending a single copy of all unique strings will be the
only or most useful indexing scheme used, but I do have a
lot of faith in the general idea of building such indexing
trees from the bottom up. Of course, we'll never know
unless and until we try it.

- peterd

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