From: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)
Message-Id: <199404272102.AA05491@oit.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: Selecting URL from "equal" sites
To: martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk (Martin Hamilton)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 17:02:25 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <shjePdaSTRk8EmnuQo@mrrl.lut.ac.uk> from "Martin Hamilton" at Apr 27, 94 06:54:49 pm
Martin Hamilton said this:
> Excerpts from mail: 27-Apr-94 Re: Selecting URL from "equ.. Michael
> Mealling@oit.gat (3392*)
>
> > > For #2, the URC server could perhaps randomly order the URLs in the UYRC,
> > > presuming that the 1st one will be chosen. I guess this is the fallback
> > > strategy for #1, where the URLs that are "close" (all archie servers in
> > > North America) are grouped and then returned in a random order. Then, a
> > > geographic location might be useful.
>
> > What might be usefull is a field for specifying either a) what
> > geographic area your in or b) what 'set of networks' you consider yourself
> > close too. For example, a URC for a document I mirror locally might be
> > URN:bla
> > URL:bla
> > Close-Nets: 128.61.0.0,130.207.0.0,[Suranet networks],[etc..]
>
> > Location-Geographic: US-East Cost
> > That way we 'know' atleast what I as the mirror site considers close.
>
> Hmm... I'm not keen on seeing network numbers in the URCs !
I wasn't either but it's just one method of doing this...
> Now, here's a question - what price IAFA templates in all of these
> discussions? I'm not clear how URCs (at least
> the "URT") relate to them. What does the panel think?
I havn't seen the final, final cut on the IAFA template but I think its
are a good place to start. With some work I think it could possibly be
easiest just to say "The list of currently understood elements in a URC
are listed in the IAFA RFC" but I don't think we're quite ready to do that
yet....
-MM
P.S. Does anyone know what the state of the IAFA docs are?
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