Date: Mon, 3 Oct 94 17:15:47 -0400
To: uri@bunyip.com
From: mitra@path.net (Mitra)
Message-Id: <9410031415.aa05037@pandora.sf.ca.us>
In article <9410031710.AA21142@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu> Daniel LaLiberte,
liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu writes:
>Like any good CEO, the roots should delegate almost all of their
>responsibility to intermediate level servers. Clients must be able to
>go directly to the intermediate level servers so the root servers are
>not bothered unless needed. The same applies to intermediate levels
>in the hierarchy, on down to the lowest level where the grunt work is
>done. Perhaps clients should only talk to the lowest levels who then
>request services of higher levels. Have I recreated DNS yet?
Getting close, which is why I previously proposed using DNS to find the
URN->URL/URC server for the publisher, a simple efficient cached,
hierarchical scheme that we dont have to re-invent.
Once the appropriate server, or servers, are found then doing the lookup is
simple and efficient.
One big advantage of this scheme - unlike several proposed recently - is
that servers aren't loaded with more queries than neccessary, allowing it
to scale both in terms of the number of URNs and the number of queries.
- Mitra
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Mitra mitra@path.net
V.P.Engineering, Pandora Systems (415)488-0944