On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Paul Everitt wrote:

> Back when we originally tried to get the locator going, I tried to
> follow the format specified by the IAFA working group (Internet
> Anonymous FTP archive). It had several classes of records that could
> point to each other. Classes included organizations, people, software,
> and documents.
>
> Specifically, I was trying to follow the use of ALIWEB. This system
> allowed people to leave a specially formatted file at a special URL on
> their server. They then register this URL with the central service.
> Once every so often the central service snarfs the files and rebuild the
> index.
>
> This lets people locally maintain their catalogs, rather than having to
> revisit some remote site to do so.

Would the CNRI "handle" system be helpful here?






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