Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 16:23:16 JST
From: francis@cactus.slab.ntt.jp (Paul Francis)
Message-Id: <9409290723.AA05552@cactus.slab.ntt.jp>
To: Michael.Mealling@oit.gatech.edu, pays@faugeres.inria.fr, wade@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: URCs and URL resolution
>
> 2. Right! there are several question marks about centroids on a large
> scale, choice of he centroid mesh aso...
> As, on the other hand, if we have no proof yet concerning centroids,
> we (people with experience in directory services) sure have
> proofs that existing technologies (such as X.500) will NOT
> scale, AND have many hope that centroid can do it.
> THUS, many of us are about the launch a large scale centroid
> worldwide pilot, in order to have facts and experience about
> centroids rather thab belief and disbelief.
This is good, I'm very glad to see it. My main point was that the
tone of people's messages seemed to assume the existance of certain
whois++ capabilities, and I think people should not make any
assumptions yet.
Also, while the pilot is a good and necessary thing, I would still
like to see some description (5 - 10 pages) from the current
believers in centroids as to what they expect its behaviour to
be under the various circumstances (white pages, restricted yellow
pages, full blown info retrieval search, etc).
PF