Date: Sat, 15 Oct 94 10:21:07 -0400
Message-Id: <aac55c3b03021004fe9d@[192.190.111.98]>
To: paf@nada.kth.se (Patrik Faltstrom)
From: mitra@path.net (Mitra)
Subject: Re: Uniform Resource Names - almost draft
>Most of the time spent waiting for an answer will be in finding the
>correct whois++ server, not a search in an indexed table for the URN.
>Even though you have the centroid mechanism, finding a server means
>that you do search the "Directory-Of-Servers" for a top-node
>server for the actual template you are searching for, or the
>describe-tamplates of all servers of the world. After that, you
>start to traverse the whois++ tree. So, you do have lots of
>interaction with the network before doing the actual search for
>the URN here.
I just wanted to draw attention to this, in the URN paper, and the scheme
being used in the test-bed , we dont use the centroids or
Directory-of-servers to find the correct servers, because both it is too
slow especially if its working over thousands of servers. It is probably
appropriate for a directory search, but not for a resolution of a URN.
- Mitra
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