Aazure.201
net.general
utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!teklabs!tekmdp!azure!stevenm
Sun Oct 11 16:50:32 1981
Network Directory Suggestion

I would like to suggest an alternate (or additional) approach to
creating a network directory. Gather a list of site-names and the
places that they converse with, e.g.

       nowhere: somewhere,elsewhere,underwhere,overwhere

the order of the sites in the second field would be the "effective
turn-around time". This would be a judgement made by the system
administrator, taking into account polling direction and frequency,
baud rate, etc. Distribute this via some means (netnews) to all sites
along with a program, that, for a given destination site, finds an
optimal (by some list of parameters) route to that site.

While this wouldn't be as visually interesting as a map, it would allow
each site to prepare a "directory" of the best path to each other site,
which is usually the desired piece of information. This directory would
be "personalized" to the local system, and could have tweeks put in it
after the program spits it out, to reflect knowledge that the program
does not have.

S. McGeady

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