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- This file (README-prospero-documents, version of 9 August 1993,
- swa@isi.edu) describes the publicly available documents about the
- Prospero Directory Service. For comments on this file or questions
- about prospero, please send electronic mail to info-prospero@ISI.EDU
-
- These files are all available through Prospero. If you're not running
- Prospero yet, they're also available via anonymous FTP from
- PROSPERO.ISI.EDU.
-
- Some of the documents mentioned below this point in this file are
- marked with the label DISTRIBUTION and are additionally available in
- the doc subdirectory of the latest Beta and Alpha Prospero releases
- (releases Beta.5.1 and Alpha.5.2a). A good way to obtain the Prospero
- distribution, if you're not running Prospero yet, is to anonymously
- FTP to PROSPERO.ISI.EDU and get /pub/prospero/prospero.tar.Z. If you
- are already running Prospero, the lastest distribution is kept in
- /releases/prospero/prospero.tar.Z.
-
- Prospero: /papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/prospero-oir.ps.Z
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/papers/prospero/prospero-oir.ps.Z
- (POSTSCRIPT)
- @ARTICLE{oir,
- AUTHOR = "Neuman, B. Clifford",
- TITLE = "Prospero: A Tool for Organizing {I}nternet Resources",
- JOURNAL = "Electronic Networking: Research, Applications and Policy",
- MONTH = "Spring",
- YEAR = 1992,
- VOLUME = 2,
- NUMBER = 1}
-
- This is a useful first paper to read. It gives a good overview of
- Prospero and what it does. It also describes a bit about the Virtual
- System model, of which Prospero is a prototype implementation. It
- describes what Prospero does, not how it does it.
-
- Prospero: /papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/prospero-bii.ps.Z
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/papers/prospero/prospero-bii.ps.Z
- (POSTSCRIPT)
- @INPROCEEDINGS{prosperobii,
- AUTHOR = "Neuman, B. Clifford and Augart, Steven Seger",
- TITLE = "Prospero: A Base for Building Information Infrastructure",
- BOOKTITLE = "Proceedings of INET'93",
- YEAR = 1993,
- MONTH = "August"}
-
- This paper describes how Prospero can be used to integrate internet
- information services, including Gopher, WAIS, Archie, and World Wide
- Web. It is another good first paper to read about Prospero. The paper will
- be presented at INET'93 in August.
-
- Prospero: /papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/prospero-gfsvsm.ps.Z
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/papers/prospero/prospero-gfsvsm.ps.Z
- (POSTSCRIPT)
- @ARTICLE{gfsvsm,
- AUTHOR = "Neuman, B. Clifford",
- TITLE = "The {P}rospero {F}ile {S}ystem: A Global File System
- based on the {V}irtual {S}ystem {M}odel",
- JOURNAL = "Computing Systems",
- VOLUME = 5,
- NUMBER = 4,
- YEAR = 1992,
- MONTH = "Fall"}
-
- This is a good second paper to read about Prospero. This one is
- targeted more toward system implementors. It provides more
- implementation details than the paper on organizing Internet
- resources, but less of the vision of how Prospero can be used together
- with other systems. Note: the online copy is the paper presented at
- the Workshop on File System. A slightly revised version of the paper
- which subsequently appeared in Computing Systems and Computing Systems is
- the preferred citation.
-
- Prospero: /papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/prospero-smlic.ps.Z
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/papers/prospero/prospero-smlic.ps.Z
- (POSTSCRIPT)
- @INPROCEEDINGS{prosperosmlic,
- AUTHOR = "Neuman, B. Clifford and Augart, Steven Seger and
- Upasani, Shantaprasad",
- TITLE = "Using Prospero to Support Integrated
- Location-Independent Computing",
- BOOKTITLE = "Proceedings of the Usenix Symposium on Mobile and
- Location-Independent Computing",
- YEAR = 1993,
- MONTH = "August",
- PAGES = "29--34"}
-
- This paper describes how the Prospero Directory Service can be used to
- solve the server selection problem and the user location problem. The
- paper was presented in August, 1993, at the Usenix Symposium on Mobile
- and Location-Independent Computing.
-
- Prospero: /papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/UW-CS-89-01-07.PS.Z
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/papers/prospero/UW-CS-89-01-07.PS.Z
- (POSTSCRIPT)
- @TECHREPORT{vsmldos,
- AUTHOR = "Neuman, B. Clifford",
- TITLE = "The {V}irtual {S}ystem {M}odel for Large Distributed
- Operating Systems",
- INSTITUTION = "Department of Computer Science, University of Washington",
- YEAR = 1989,
- MONTH = "April",
- NUMBER = "89-01-07"}
-
- This describes the initial vision for the Virtual System Model, the
- model on which Prospero is based. Much of the material in this paper
- appears in greater detail in other papers.
-
- Prospero: /papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/UW-CSE-90-05-01.PS.Z
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/papers/prospero/UW-CSE-90-05-01.PS.Z
- (POSTSCRIPT)
- @TECHREPORT{vsmtp,
- AUTHOR = "Neuman, B. Clifford",
- TITLE = "The {V}irtual {S}ystem {M}odel: A Scalable Approach to
- Organizing Large Systems (A Thesis Proposal)",
- INSTITUTION = "Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
- University of Washington",
- YEAR = 1990,
- MONTH = "May",
- NUMBER = "90-05-01"}
-
- For a long time this was the best description of Prospero, but all the
- information in this document appears in more recent papers and the
- dissertation itself.
-
- Prospero: /papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/prospero-closure.ps.Z
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/papers/prospero/prospero-closure.ps.Z
- (POSTSCRIPT)
- @ARTICLE{nfclosure,
- AUTHOR = "Neuman, B. Clifford",
- TITLE = "The Need for Closure in Large Distributed Systems",
- JOURNAL = "Operating Systems Review",
- MONTH = "October",
- YEAR = 1989,
- VOLUME = 23,
- NUMBER = 4,
- PAGES = "28--30"}
-
- This paper describes the reasons that operating systems need to
- support closure, that is they need to make it clear which name space
- is to be used when resolving names. While closure is one of the
- important features of Prospero, the concept should be applied in other
- operating systems too.
-
- Prospero: /papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/prospero-wsvsm.ps.Z
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/papers/prospero/prospero-wsvsm.ps.Z
- (POSTSCRIPT)
- @INPROCEEDINGS{wsvsm,
- AUTHOR = "Neuman, B. Clifford",
- TITLE = "Workstations and the {V}irtual {S}ystem {M}odel",
- BOOKTITLE = "Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on
- Workstation Operating Systems",
- YEAR = 1989,
- MONTH = "September",
- PAGES = "91--95",
- NOTE = "Also appears in the {\it Newsletter of the IEEE Technical
- Committee on Operating Systems}, Volume 3, Number 3,
- Fall 1989. Available as University of Washington Department
- of Computer Science and Engineering Technical Report
- 89-10-10"}
-
- Describes the role of the workstation in a system based on the Virtual
- System Model. Also provides an early description of Prospero.
-
- Prospero:
- /papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/prospero-neuman-thesis.ps.Z
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/papers/prospero/prospero-neuman-thesis.ps.Z
- (POSTSCRIPT)
- @PHDTHESIS{phdneuman,
- AUTHOR = "Neuman, B. Clifford",
- TITLE = "The {V}irtual {S}ystem {M}odel: A Scalable Approach to
- Organizing Large Systems",
- SCHOOL = "University of Washington",
- MONTH = "June",
- YEAR = 1992,
- NOTE = "Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Technical Report 92-06-04"}
-
- This is Clifford Neuman's Ph.D. Dissertation. It is currently the
- definitive work on Prospero and the Virtual System Model. The
- prospero manuals that form its appendices have been superseded by
- those described below.
-
- Prospero:
- /papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/doc/prospero-protocol-v5.PS.Z
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/prospero/doc/prospero-protocol-v5.PS.Z
- DISTRIBUTION: protocol.PS, protocol.tex
- (POSTSCRIPT or LaTeX)
- This is a description of version 5 of the Prospero protocol
- and of the Reliable Delivery Protocol that we use. It includes lots
- of information that was elided in the version 1 protocol
- specification. It also has a lot of information in it about how the
- system works. The LaTeX source is available as
- prospero-protocol-v5.tex.Z.
-
- Prospero: /papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/doc/prospero-protocol-v1.PS.Z
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/prospero/doc/prospero-protocol-v1.PS.Z
- (POSTSCRIPT)
- This is a description of version 1 of the Prospero protocol.
- (It's identical to appendices D and E of B. Clifford Neuman's Ph.D.
- Dissertation.) It is now obsoleted by version 5 protocol. However,
- we are still making it available since a number of older servers are running
- version 1 protocol, and since most of the current ARCHIE clients use the
- older Version 1 protocol.
-
- Prospero:
- /papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/doc/prospero-user-manual.PS.Z
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/prospero/doc/prospero-user-manual.PS.Z
- DISTRIBUTION: manual.PS, manual.tex
- (POSTSCRIPT or LaTeX)
- This is the Prospero User's manual. It is slightly out of
- date, and we'll be revising it shortly. Latex source in the
- corresponding .tex file.
-
- Prospero:
- /papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/doc/prospero-library.PS.Z
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/prospero/doc/prospero-library.PS.Z
- DISTRIBUTION: library.PS, library.tex
- (POSTSCRIPT, LaTeX)
- Prospero library manual. Somewhat sketchy and not
- comprehensive, but far better than nothing. This is mainly useful for
- applications writers. This is slowly being updated. Latex source in
- the corresponding .tex file.
-
-
- Prospero: /papers/subjects/security/issues.ps.Z
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/papers/psfos.ps.Z
- (POSTSCRIPT)
- @INPROCEEDINGS{psfos,
- AUTHOR = "Neuman, B. Clifford",
- TITLE = "Protection and Security Issues for Future Systems",
- BOOKTITLE = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Operating Systems of the
- 90s and Beyond",
- PUBLISHER = "Springer-Verlag",
- YEAR = 1991,
- MONTH = "July",
- PAGES = "184--201",
- NOTE = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science #563",}
- Not Prospero-specific. Describes some of the security issues which
- underlay the development of Prospero's (optional) access control system.
-
- Prospero: /papers/subjects/distributed-systems/scale.ps.Z
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/papers/scale.ps.Z
- (POSTSCRIPT)
- @INCOLLECTION{sds,
- AUTHOR = "Neuman, B. Clifford",
- TITLE = "Scale in Distributed Systems",
- BOOKTITLE = "Readings in Distributed Computing Systems",
- PUBLISHER = "IEEE Computer Society Press",
- YEAR = 1992}
- This is not really Prospero-specific, but it addresses general issues
- of scale in distributed systems. It discusses Prospero among other
- systems, and mentions a number of the issues that are driving the
- development of Prospero.
-
- Prospero: /papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/README-prospero-documents
- Anonymous FTP: /pub/papers/prospero/README-prospero-documents
- (ASCII)
- This file.
-
-
- Virtual-System-Name: #/INET/EDU/ISI/swa
-