home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Editor's Note: Minutes received 11/21/92
-
- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
-
-
- Reported by Joan Gargano/UCDavis
-
- Minutes of the Whois and Network Information Lookup Service Working
- Group (WNILS)
-
- Introduction and Overview
-
- Joan Gargano spoke briefly about the impetus for starting the working
- group and development of the Whois++ application. This was followed by
- presentations by the developers.
-
- Architecture of Whois++
-
- Peter Deutsch presented an overview of the Whois++ architecture. Peter
- described the prototype system, the currently supported query syntax and
- areas for improvement.
-
- Centroids
-
- Chris Weider provided an overview of the mechanism used to build a
- distributed directory service called ``centroids''. Simon Spero
- continued with a discussion of the underlying theory of centroids which
- has been used by other groups studying information retrieval issues.
-
- Sample Server
-
- Jim Fullton presented a brief overview of the Whois++ server developed
- at CNIDR. Jim describe his system which was built using standard Unix
- utilities. Response times of 15 seconds to query a database of 30,000
- records was reported, however Jim felt significant improvements could be
- achieved with software designed and coded to optimize the system.
- Servers for testing are available at CNIDR and UC Davis. It is
- anticipated about 10 new servers will be in place within a couple of
- weeks.
-
- Questions
-
- The floor was opened for questions and general discussion of the
- protocol.
-
- Future
-
- The Whois++ developers solicited input about desired features. The
- following work was recommended.
-
-
- o A feature to allow servers to pass information about servers that
- poll them to optimize searching.
-
- 1
-
-
-
-
-
- o A description of printer output format.
- o There needs to be a clearinghouse for templates. It was
- recommended this be performed by CNIDR.
- o Privacy and security features.
- o A method for handling replication of services.
- o Further discussion about usernames and attributes.
- o A method for using synonyms with queries.
- o A method to abort searches and continue searches.
- o Provide the ability to store and pass images.
- o A way to limit the attributes returned by a search.
- o A method for tagging attributes.
-
-
- Attendees
-
- Jules Aronson aronson@nlm.nih.gov
- Anthony Ballardie A.Ballardie@cs.ucl.ac.uk
- Steve Bucey sabucey@ns.pacbell.com
- Peter DiCamillo Peter_DiCamillo@brown.edu
- Letha Dugas 4371362@mcimail.com
- Cliff Frost cliff@cmsa.berkeley.edu
- Jim Fullton jim_fullton@unc.edu
- Joan Gargano jcgargano@ucdavis.edu
- Masayoshi Gohara mg@sinet.ad.jp
- Deborah Hamilton debbie@qsun.att.com
- Alisa Hata hata@cac.washington.edu
- Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu
- Jim Knowles jknowles@binky.arc.nasa.gov
- John Kunze jak@violet.berkeley.edu
- Edward Levinson levinson@pica.army.mil
- Clifford Lynch calur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu
- Mitra mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us
- Charlotte Mooers mooers@nnsc.nsf.net
- Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu
- Pete Percival percival@indiana.edu
- Karen Petraska-Veum karen@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Sheri Repucci smr@merit.edu
- Joyce K. Reynolds jkrey@isi.edu
- Richard Rodgers rodgers@nlm.nih.gov
- Patricia Smith psmith@merit.edu
- Larry Snodgrass snodgras@bitnic.educom.edu
- Janet Vratny janet@apple.com
- Yung-Chao Yu yy@qsun.att.com
- William Yurcik yurcik@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov
-
-
-
- 2
-