RFC 1689
A Status Report on Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups
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Part 7 of 7 – Pages 190 to 226
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APPENDIX C /* A summary of email lists and newsgroups dealing with */ /* various issues in resource discovery and networked */ /* information retrieval. */ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Created-By: Peter Deutsch Email Address: peterd@bunyip.com Last Updated: 16 December 1993 Comments: Please send comments, corrections and additions to the author at the above address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- /* The following mailing lists are in IAFA format. NIR Groups and */ /* Tool developers are encouraged to make such descriptions */ /* available for their lists. */ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mailinglist-Name: Alex Address: alex-users@cs.cmu.edu Administration: alex-users-request@cs.cmu.edu Address: alex-servers@cs.cmu.edu Administration: alex-servers-request@cs.cmu.edu Description: alex-servers is for people setting up an Alex fileserver. alex-users is for people who just want to use Alex. Archive: alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.209.13) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mailinglist-Name: Archie Address: archie-maint@bunyip.com Administration: archie-maint-request@bunyip.com Description: This mailing list is for people who operate and
maintain archie servers. Announcements of bug
fixes, new releases and discussion of new
features are carried out on this list.
Archive: archives.cc.mcgill.ca:/pub/mailing-lists/archie-maint
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Mailinglist-Name: The archie People Mailing List
Address: archie-people@bunyip.com
Administration: archie-people-request@bunyip.com
Description: This mailing list is for people interested in
the archie project and its future developments.
Announcements of upgrades, new services, etc.
are made to this list.
Archive: None
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Mailinglist-Name Gopher
Address: gopher-news@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Administration: gopher-news-request@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Description: News and views of all things gopher.
Archive: Via gopher: University of Minnesota Gopher
Information About Gopher
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Mailinglist-Name: HYTELNET Updates Distribution
Address: hytel-l@kentvm.kent.edu
Administration: By listowner Peter Scott
aa375@freenet.carleton.ca
Description: To inform members of new version of the
software, and to keep users informed of
new/changed/defunct Telnet-accessible sites.
To subscribe send email message to
listserv@kentvm.kent.edu with no subject, and
sub hytel-l firstname lastname as the body of
the message.
Archive: None.
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Mailinglist-Name: Netfind
Address: netfind-users@cs.colorado.edu
Administration: netfind-users-request@cs.colorado.edu
Description: Mailing list for user changes and updates.
Archive: None.
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Address: netfind-servers@cs.colorado.edu
Administration: schwartz@cs.colorado.edu
Description: Mailing list for sites running Netfind servers.
Archive: None.
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Mailinglist-Name: Prospero
Address: info-prospero@isi.edu
Administration: info-prospero-request@isi.edu
Description: This mailing list is really two one-way mailing
lists. Send mail to INFO-PROSPERO to obtain
information about Prospero, papers or the
release. Mail to INFO-PROSPERO will not be
passed on to subscribers. INFO-PROSPERO is
also the list to which we will send status
updates and information on how to obtain new
releases.
Archive: Via anonymous FTP to PROSPERO.ISI.EDU as
/pub/prospero/mail/info-prospero.arc
Via prospero in the "#/INET/EDU/ISI/GUEST/prototype"
virtual system as
/sites/isi.edu/pub/prospero/mail/info-prospero.arc.
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Address: prospero@isi.edu
Administration: prospero-request@isi.edu
Description: This mailing list is for general discussion of
Prospero, for announcements of new sites that
have come on board, and for announcments of
directories that people have created to
organize the information already accessible.
Archive: Via anonymous FTP to PROSPERO.ISI.EDU as
/pub/prospero/mail/prospero.arc
Via Prospero in the "#/INET/EDU/ISI/GUEST/prototype"
virtual system as
/sites/isi.edu/pub/prospero/mail/prospero.arc.
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Mailinglist-Name: Veronica
Address: veronica-news@veronica.scs.unr.edu
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Mailinglist-Name: WAIS
Address: wais-discussion@wais.com
Administration: wais-discussion-request@wais.com
Description: Moderated, digested biweekly posting about WAIS
and Electronic publishing subjects. Please
submit interesting materials.
Archive:
/pub/wais/mail-archives/wais-discussion/issue-*@wais.com
and wais-discussion-archive WAIS server
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Address: wais-talk@wais.com
Administration: wais-talk-request@wais.com
Description: Implementors forum on WAIS. This is for
talking about nitty gritty details of protocols
and implementations.
Archive: /pub/wais/mail-archives/wais-talk@wais.com
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Mailinglist-Name: freeWAIS
Address: freeWAIS@cnidr.org
Administration: not applicable
Description: Mailing list for reporting bugs in freeWAIS.
Archive: None.
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Mailinglist-Name: WWW
Address: www-talk@info.cern.ch for CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY
Administration: listserv@info.cern.ch (robot)
www-talk-request@info.cern.ch (human)
Description: Technical discussions, W3 related. Experts to
experts. General questions to
comp.infosystems.www please.
Archive: Not currently served, but kept.
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Address: www-announce@info.cern.ch
NOT FOR GENERAL USE - serious low-volume
announcements only
Administration: listserv@info.cern.ch (robot)
www-announce-request@info.cern.ch (human)
Description: Low volume summary announcements of product
releases, etc.
Archive: Not currently public.
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Mailinglist-Name: X.500
Address: dssig@ics.uci.edu
Administration: dssig-request@ics.uci.edu
Description: Mail list for OIW DS-SIG group.
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Mailinglist-Name: CNI Groups
All of the CNI lists are managed with the Unix-Listprocessor software.
To join any of them mail to:
listproc@cni.org
sub cni-<groupname> Firstname Lastname
All CNI list archives are available as:
URL:ftp://ftp.cni.org/CNI/forums/cni-<groupname>
URL:gopher//gopher.cni.org 70/CNI Working Group Forums/
cni-<groupname>
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Mailinglist-Name: CNI News and Announcements
Address: cni-announce@cni.org
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Mailinglist-Name: Architecture and Standards Working Group
Address: cni-architecture@cni.org
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Mailinglist-Name: Copyright and Intellectual Property
Forum
Address: cni-copyright@cni.org
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Mailinglist-Name: Directories and Information Resource Services
Working Group
Address: cni-directories@cni.org
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Mailinglist-Name: CNI Legislation, Codes, Policies and
Practices Working Group Forum
Address: cni-legislation@cni.org
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Mailinglist-Name: CNI Management & Professional & User
Education Working Group Forum
Address: cni-management@cni.org
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Mailinglist-Name: CNI Modernization of Scholarly
Publication Working Group Forum
Address: cni-modernization@cni.org
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Mailinglist-Name: CNI Access to Public Information
Working Group Forum
Address: cni-pubinfo@cni.org
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Mailinglist-Name: CNI Teaching and Learning Working Group
Forum
Address: cni-teaching@cni.org
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Mailinglist-Name: CNI Transformation of Scholarly
Communication Working Group Forum
Address: cni-transformation@cni.org
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Mailinglist-Name: TopNode for Networked Information Resources,
Services and Tools
Address: cnidir@cni.org
cni-directories@cni.org
Administration: listserv@cni.org
SUB cni-directories Lastname Firstname
Archive: ftp.cni.org:/CNI/forums/cni-directories/*
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Mailinglist-Name: CNIDR
Address: info@cnidr.org
Administration: none
Description: Email sent to this address will receive an
automatic response containing more information
about current CNIDR activities.
Archive: none
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Mailinglist-Name: zip@cnidr.org
Address: zip@cnidr.org
Administration: zip-request@cnidr.org
sub zip Lastname Firstname
Description: Technical discussion of Z39.50-92 application
development. Subscribers receive brief
overview of project and information on how to
access archives.
Archive:
ftp://ftp.cnidr.org/NIDR.tools/zip
gopher://gopher.cnidr.org/NIDR Tools/Discussion/Online Discussion
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Mailinglist-Name: IDS: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) WG
on Integrated Directory Services
Address: ietf-ids@merit.edu
Administration: ietf-ids-request@merit.edu
Archive: Anonymous FTP to merit.edu, ids/archive
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Mailinglist-Name: IIIR: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) WG
on Integration of Internet Information Resources
Address: iiir@merit.edu
Administration: iiir-request@merit.edu
Archive: Anonymous FTP, iiir/archive
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Mailinglist-Name: NIR: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) WG
on Network Information Retrieval
Address: nir@mailbase.ac.uk
Administration: Auto subscriptions to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk
"subscribe nir firstname lastname"
Human admin to: nir-request@mailbase.ac.uk
Description: This mailing list is intended to act as a
clearing-house for discussions of Networked
Information Retrieval and the active research
projects in this field (eg WAIS, WWW, Gopher).
Keywords: IETF, URIs, UDIs, URLs, UDLs, resource
discovery, Internet, Gopher, WAIS, WWW, X.500,
archie
Archive: ftp://mailbase.ac.uk/pub/lists/files/nir/*
or via gopher to mailbase.ac.uk
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Mailinglist-Name: NISI: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) WG
on Network Information Services Infrastructure
Address: nisi@merit.edu
Administration: nisi-request@merit.edu
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Mailinglist-Name: OSI-DS: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
WG on OSI Directory Services
Address: ietf-osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Administration: ietf-osi-ds-request@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Archive: Anonymous FTP, bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk
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Mailinglist-Name: URI: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) WG
on Uniform Resource Identifiers
Address: uri@bunyip.com
Administration: uri-request@bunyip.com
Archive: archives.cc.mcgill.ca:~/pub/uri-archive
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Mailinglist-Name: WNILS: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Whois and Network Information Lookup Service
Address: ietf-wnils@ucdavis.edu
Administration: ietf-wnils-request@ucdavis.edu
subscribe ietf-wnils Firstname Lastname
Description: This mailing list is used by the IETF Whois and
Network Information Lookup Service (WNILS)
working group which is defining enhancements to
whois.
Archive: ucdavis.edu:/pub/archive
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Mailinglist-Name: Z39.50 Implementors Group (ZIG)
Address: Z3940IW@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu (Internet)
Z3950IW@NERVM (Bitnet)
Administration/ listserv@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu (Internet)
Subscriptions: LISTSERV@NERVM (Bitnet)
Archive: Anonymous FTP and/or Gopher: sally.fcla.ufl.edu
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Mailinglist-Name: RARE Information Services and User Support WG
Address: wg-isus@rare.nl
Administration: Auto subscriptions to: mailserver@rare.nl
"subscribe wg-isus <firstname> <lastname>
Human admin to: wg-isus-request@rare.nl
Description: General purpose mailing list for whole ISUS WG.
Document Archive: Site: raredoc.rare.nl
Directory: /rare
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Mailinglist-Name: MMIS: RARE Multimedia Information Services
Task Force
Address: mmis@mailbase.ac.uk
Administration: Autosubscriptions to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk
"subscribe mmis firstname lastname
Human admin to: mmis-request@mailbase.ac.uk
Archive: ftp://mailbase.ac.uk/pub/lists/files/mmis/*
or via gopher to mailbase.ac.uk
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Mailinglist-Name: UNITE: RARE Task Force on "User Network
Interface To Everything"
Address: unite@mailbase.ac.uk
Administration: Autosubscriptions to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk
"subscribe unite firstname lastname
Human admin to: unite-request@mailbase.ac.uk
Archive: ftp://mailbase.ac.uk/pub/lists/files/unite/*
or via gopher to mailbase.ac.uk
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Mailinglist-Name: Hyper-G
Address: uniinfo@mlist.tu-graz.ac.at
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Mailinglist-Name: Soft Pages
Address: spp@aic.co.jp
Administration: spp-request@aic.co.jp
Description: Technical discussion related to representation
of network information in the directory and its
usage is carried out in this group.
Archive: Not (yet) available via anonymous FTP.
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Mailinglist-Name: WHOIS++
Address: ietf-wnils@ucdavis.edu
Administration: ietf-wnils-request@ucdavis.edu
Archive: pub/archive/wnils@ucdavis.edu
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Mailinglist-Name: IAFA: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Internet Anonymous FTP Archive working group
Address: iafa@bunyip.com
Administration: iafa-request@bunyip.com
Description: This mailing list is for people who are
involved in the Internet Anonymous FTP Archives
Working Group of the IETF. This group was
involved in standardizing the encoding of
information at anonymous FTP archives and thus
is of interest to operators and users of the
archie system. It came to completion in
November, 1992 and produced two documents which
have been presented to the IETF as informational
RFCs.
Archive: archives.cc.mcgill.ca:/pub/mailing-lists/iafa
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/* The following Usenet newsgroups discuss various issues in */
/* resource discovery or specific NIR projects. */
Newsgroup-Name: comp.archives.admin
Mailinglist-Gate: <unknown>
Description: This group discusses problems in administering
Internet archives. It has also been used as an
informal source of announcements for project
releases, a place for new-comers to ask
questions, etc.
Keywords: anonymous FTP, archives, Internet, archie
Archive: <unknown>
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Newsgroup-Name: comp.infosystems.wais
Mailinglist-Gate: <unknown>
Description: This group was created to host discussions
about the Wide Area Information Server
Also included are information and help with the
public domain release available from Thinking
Machine Corp. and setting up your own WAIS
server.
Keywords: WAIS, resource discovery, indexing, Internet
Archive: <unknown>
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Newsgroup-Name: alt.wais
Mailinglist-Gate: <unknown>
Description: This alt. group was created to host discussions
about the Wide Area Information Service. It has
been superceeded by the group
"comp.infosystems.wais" and its use is
discouraged.
Keywords: WAIS, resource discovery, indexing, Internet
Archive: <unknown>
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Newsgroup-Name: comp.infosystems.www
Mailinglist-Gate: <unknown>
Description: This group was created to host discussions
about the World Wide Web distributed hypertext
information services project based at CERN in
Switzerland, including discussion of the many
public domain implementations of WWW clients
and servers available.
Keywords: World Wide Web, campus-wide information
systems, resource discovery, indexing, Internet
Archive: <unknown>
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Newsgroup-Name: alt.gopher
Mailinglist-Gate: <unknown>
Description: This group was created to host discussions
about the Gopher distributed information
project, based at University of Minnesota,
including discussion of the many public domain
implementations of Gopher clients and servers
available. It has been superceeded by the
group "comp.infosystems.gopher" and its use is
discouraged.
Keywords: Gopher, campus-wide information systems,
resource discovery, indexing, Internet
Archive: <unknown>
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Newsgroup-Name: alt.internet.services
Description: This newsgroup is for people interested in
Internet-related services, with a focus at the
user level. Announcements and discussions of
issues related to archie are presented here, as
well as discussions of more general issues
relating to Internet services.
Archive: not known
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Newsgroup-Name: bit.listserv.hytel-l
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APPENDIX D COMING ATTRACTIONS This section will be used to keep a note of NIR Tools which are considered by the NIR Group to be sufficiently well developed to include here, but that are not yet in widespread use. Items currently included here are: Hyper-G Soft Pages Whois++ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HYPER-G Date template updated or checked: 19th October, 1993 By: Name: Frank Kappe Email address:fkappe@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NIR Tool Name: Hyper-G Brief Description of Tool: Hyper-G is the name of an ambitious hypermedia project currently being developed as a joint effort by a number of institutes of the IIG (Institutes for Information-Processing Graz) and the Computing and Information Services Center of the Graz University of Technology and the Austrian Computer Society. Hyper-G is designed as a general-purpose, large-scale, multi-user, distributed hypermedia information system. As such, it combines concepts of hypermedia, information retrieval systems, documentation systems with aspects of communication and collaboration, and computer supported teaching and learning. It also provides seamless integration of other systems (e.g., World-Wide Web, Gopher, WAIS) that also operate under the client/server paradigm and allows remote logins to interactive services. In addition to hypertext links, Hyper-G allows navigation through hierarchies, queries (including full text), guided tours, and is multilingual.
Hyper-G is currently operated at some 10 locations throughout the world, including a University Information System at the Graz Technical University. Clients and the server are available without fee for educational institutions, and are distributed as binaries for a number of platforms. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Primary Contact(s): Name: Frank Kappe Email address: fkappe@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at Postal Address: Schieszstattg. 4a, A-8010 Graz, AUSTRIA Telephone: +43-316-832551-22 Fax: +43-316-824394 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Help Line: Sorry no help line ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Related Working Groups: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source: Austrian Ministry of Science European Space Agency ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mailing Lists: uniinfo@mlist.tu-graz.ac.at ----------------------------------------------------------------------- News groups: None -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Protocols:
What is supported: RPC
What it runs over: TCP/IP
Other NIR tools this interworks with: gopher, WAIS, World Wide Web
Future plans: Too numerous to mention.
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Servers:
Date completed or updated: 12th October, 1993
By: Name: Gerald Pani
Email address: gpani@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at
Platform: UNIX
Primary Contact:
Name: Gerald Pani
Email address: gpani@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at
Telephone: +43-316-832551-34
Server software available from: anon-ftp from iicm.tu-graz.ac.at,
in directory pub/Hyper-G/Server
Location of more information: see README in above directory
Latest version number:
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Approximate number of such servers in use: 13
General comments:
Currently available as binary distribution for SUN, DEC, HP,
and SGI workstations.
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Clients:
UNIX curses client (a.k.a. VT100 Client)
Date completed or updated: 19th October, 1993
By: Name: Frank Kappe
Email address: fkappe@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at
Platform: UNIX
Primary Contact:
Name: Frank Kappe
Email address: fkappe@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at
Telephone: +43-316-832551-22
Client software available from:
anonymous ftp: iicm.tu-graz.ac.at:/pub/Hyper-G/UnixClient
Location of more information:
Latest version number: 1.41
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Fairly sophisticated terminal viewer with ~50 commands, multi-
language user interface, history, authoring capabilities (text
documents and links) and the ability to speak to gopher,
World-Wide-Web, WAIS and to start telnet sessions.
General comments:
Future plans:
The terminal viewer will probably remain rather stable in the future.
Our main effort now goes into the development of clients for
X-Windows and MS-Windows.
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MS-Windows Client
Date completed or updated: 10th October, 1993
By: Name: Thomas Dietinger
Email address:
Platform: UNIX
Primary Contact:
Name: Thomas Dietinger, Frank Kappe
Email address: tdieting@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at
Telephone: +43-316-832551-22
Client software available from:
anonymous ftp: iicm.tu-graz.ac.at:/pub/Hyper-G/pc-client
Location of more information:
Latest version number: 1.37
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Preliminary version of a Hyper-G client for MS-Windows 3.1 and Windows
NT. Currently mostly identical to the UNIX curses client. An
exception is its ability to elegantly import and export RTF text files
to/from Hyper-G, and its multimedia capabilities.
General comments:
Future plans:
Will become more fancy (menus, icons, buttons...) in the near future.
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Demonstration sites:
List of sites which are willing to act as demonstration
sites for this application.
Site name: hyperg.tu-graz.ac.at
Access details: 'rlogin hyperg.tu-graz.ac.at' or
'telnet hyperg.tu-graz.ac.at', login 'info'
(rlogin has the advantage that the terminal size
of xterms is handled correctly (can even be
changed in the middle of a session)
Note: The same information is available through Gopher and WWW
gateways.
Gopher: host gopher.tu-graz.ac.at, port 70
WWW: URL=http://www.tu-graz.ac.at:80/ROOT
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Documentation:
Document Title: Most of the documentation is available on-line in the
Graz server. The server distribution include man-pages
of the additional authoring tools and utilities that
are supplied with the server. The ideas behind Hyper-G
are described in a number of research papers (see
Bibliography).
Location details:
Site: iicm.tu-graz.ac.at
Full file name: look in directory /pub/Hyper-G/doc
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Bibliography:
Kappe F.: Aspects of a Modern Multi-Media Information System. IIG
Report 308, IIG, Graz University of Technology, Austria, June 1991.
Available by anonymous ftp from
iicm.tu-graz.ac.at:/pub/Hyper-G/doc/report308.ps.Z
Kappe F., Maurer H., Sherbakov N.: Hyper-G - A Universal Hypermedia
System. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, Vol. 2,
No. 1, pp. 39-66 (1993). Also available by anonymous ftp from
iicm.tu-graz.ac.at:/pub/Hyper-G/doc/report333.txt.Z
Kappe F., Pani G., Schnabel F.: The Architecture of a Massively
Distributed Hypermedia System. Internet Research: Electronic
Networking Applications and Policy, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 10-24; Meckler
(Spring 1993)
Kappe F., Maurer H.: Hyper-G: A Large Universal Hypermedia System and
Some Spin-Offs; ACM Computer Graphics, experimental special online
issue; available by anonymous ftp from siggraph.org in directory
publications/May_93_online/Kappe.Maurer (May 1993)
Kappe F.: Hyper-G: A Distributed Hypermedia System; Proc. INET '93,
San Francisco, California, pp. DCC-1 - DCC-9 (Aug. 1993).
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Other Information:
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SOFT PAGES
Date template updated or checked: 4th November, 1993
By: Name: Glenn Mansfield
Email address: glenn@aic.co.jp
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NIR Tool Name: SoftPages
Brief Description of Tool:
A tool to aid users in the efficient retrieval of documents, s/w, and
the like from servers ( anonymous FTP, FTAM, .. ) connected to the
network. In principle, it uses the X.500 Directory framework to store
information about the network. This includes the network
configuration, the properties of the links that connect the network
elements, location of servers and their contents. When a user looks
for a particular document or s/w the above information is used to
search for the object starting from the server that is
"nearest" (cheapest) to the user.
The X.500 directory services is used in several stages
get list of file-servers
get path to file servers
get attributes for computing cost of paths
search for file that is being sought
However, under present circumstances, due to lack of deployment of
network information in the directory, when information is unavailable
from X.500, alternate sources/methods are used. [Static-lists of
file-servers, or lists of file servers from other clients (e.g.,
archie); Paths and/or costs are obtained from static lists or derived
by other direct means (e.g., ping, traceroute); file information is
sought from other servers (e.g., archie).]
User's View:
A "single window" view of the public archives connected to the
network. It locates the server that contains the sought object and is
near(/cheap/fast) server.
Query of files based on incomplete name is supported. The system also
supports queries based on keywords.
Information Provider's View:
The information about the server contents have to be updated
at a single place- namely, the local Directory Service Agent.
The Directory Service Agent makes the information globally
accessible.
It is not necessary to carry out periodic updates on one or
more information servers.
- information types supported (e.g., text, sound, etc.)
Since the system supports query on name and keywords (not on
contents) all kinds of information may be supported.
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: Manager, SoftPages Project
Email address: spp-manager@aic.co.jp
Postal Address: AIC Sytsems Lab.
Minami Yoshinari 6-6-3
Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi 989-32, Japan
Telephone: +81-22-279-3310
Fax: +81-22-279-3640
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Help Line:
Name: SoftPages Project Support Group
Email address: spp-support@aic.co.jp
Telephone: +81-22-279-3310
Level of support offered:
o volunteer
o all users yes
Hours available: Regular working hours
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Related Working Groups:
The SoftPages Project Working Group
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Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source:
The project is supported by:
AIC Systems Lab., Sendai, Japan
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
The WIDE Project, Japan
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Mailing Lists:
Address: spp@aic.co.jp
Administration: spp-request@aic.co.jp
Description: Technical discussion related to representation
of network information in the directory and its
usage is carried out in this group.
Archive: Not (yet) available via anonymous FTP.
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News groups:
None
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Protocols:
What is supported: X.500 DAP
What it runs over: LDAP over IP
Other NIR tools this interworks with:
Future plans:
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Servers:
Date completed or updated: 4th November, 1993
By: Name: Glenn Mansfield
Email address: glenn@aic.co.jp
Platform: Unix
Primary Contact:
Name: Manager, SoftPages Project
Email address: spp-manager@aic.co.jp
Telephone: +81-22-279-3310
Server software available from:
Any standard X.500 package will do.
We are using the QUIPU package that is included
in the ISODE system
Location of more information:
Latest version number:
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Approximate number of such servers in use:
General comments:
some new oids need to be assigned for
SoftPages related objects.
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Clients:
Date completed or updated: 4th November, 1993
By: Name: Glenn Mansfield
Email address: glenn@aic.co.jp
Platform: Unix.
Primary Contact:
Name: Manager, SoftPages Project
Email address: spp-manager@aic.co.jp
Telephone: +81-22-279-3310
Client software available from:
will be announced on the mailing list in the
near future
Location of more information:
Latest version number:
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
General comments:
The Prototype is under development and testing.
It is not (yet) available for public use.
Future plans:
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Demonstration sites:
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Documentation:
Document Title: README
Location details:
Site: ftp.tohoku.ac.jp
Full file name:pub/spp/README
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Bibliography:
"The Soft Pages Project", Th. Johannsen, G.Mansfield,
OSI-DS-39, February 1993.
Location details:
Site: cs.ucl.ac.uk
Full file name:osi-ds/osi-ds-39-00.{txt, ps}
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Other Information:
"Optimized Document Retrieval - Soft Pages Project", Th. Johannsen,
G.Mansfield, S.Noguchi, Booklet of Abstracts,
The Network Services Conference '92, Pisa, November 1992.
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WHOIS++
Date template updated or checked: 21 October, 1993
By: Name: Chris Weider
Email address: clw@bunyip.com
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NIR Tool Name: whois++ and the whois++ index service
Brief Description of Tool:
whois++ and the whois++ index service are extensions of the WHOIS
protocol. They are designed to a) subsume in a standardized fashion
the many enhancements which have been added to individual WHOIS
servers; b) extend the flexibility of WHOIS by enriching the query
syntax, and c) provide a distributed indexing system to tie the
various whois++ servers into a distributed information lookup service.
The protocols describe two logically distinct types of servers that an
information provider can set up. The first type is the base-level
whois++ server. This contains primary information, such as entries
for individual people or entries describing resources available
locally. For example, if one wished to provide a campus directory
through whois++, one would set up a base-level whois++ server that
contained entries for each student. In addition, this base-level
server must be able to generate 'forward knowledge' for the
information it contains. The second type of server collects the
'forward knowledge' generated by a number of base-level servers, and
can take a query sent to it and determine which of the base-level
servers it indexes might contain information relevant for the query.
A single physical server may contain both primary information and
'forward knowledge' for a number of other servers, and an index server
can also index 'forward knowledge' for a number of other index
servers, allowing a hierarchical mesh of index servers to be built.
For more details on the information provider's point of view, see the
'Documentation' section of this template.
The basic information model is centered on the concept of 'templates'.
A template is a collection of attribute:value pairs, where the
allowable attributes are specified by the template type. The whois++
templates are based on the templates defined by the IAFA working group
of the IETF. The values associated with given attributes are not
necessarily limited to text, they can be digitized sound clips, etc.
Depending on the client she uses, the user will see a connection to
the local whois++ base-level server. The user can ask the server for
a list of templates supported by that server, and can then call up a
blank version of the template so that she can fill in values for the
attributes she knows. Once she has filled in the template as much as
she wants, she issues a query to the server to find all the entries
which have these attribute:value pairs. If she is not satisfied with
the responses, she can then start traversing the index service to
locate a server which can adequately answer her query. In addition,
if a user makes frequent use of the index service, she can set
'bookmarks' which can be used later to directly contact servers she's
found useful in the past, without having to traverse the index service
again.
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: Chris Weider
Email address: clw@bunyip.com
Postal Address: 2001 South Huron Parkway 12
Ann Arbor
Michigan
48104, USA
Telephone: +1-313-971-2223
Fax: +1-313-971-2223
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Name: Peter Deutsch
Email address: peterd@bunyip.com
Postal Address: Bunyip Information Systems, Inc.
266 Blvd. Neptune
Dorval QUEBEC H9S 2L4
CANADA
Telephone: +1-514-875-8611
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Help Line:
Not yet deployed.
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Related Working Groups:
Whois Network Information Lookup Service (WNILS) Working Group of the
Internet Engineering Task Forces (IETF)
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Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source:
None
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Mailing Lists:
Address: ietf-wnils@ucdavis.edu
Administration: ietf-wnils-request@ucdavis.edu
Archive: pub/archive/wnils@ucdavis.edu
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News groups:
NONE
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Protocols:
What is supported: WHOIS, whois++
What it runs over: TCP/IP
Other NIR tools this interworks with: None yet.
Future plans: Providing resource location services and URN/URL
mappings for GOPHER, ARCHIE, WAIS, and WWW.
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Servers:
Only beta versions available at this time (21 October, 1993). Please
contact clw@bunyip.com (Chris Weider) for more information.
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Clients:
Only beta versions available at this time (21 October, 1993). Please
contact clw@bunyip.com (Chris Weider) for more information.
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Demonstration sites:
NONE at this time (21 October, 1993)
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Documentation:
Document Title: Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service
Location details:
Site: gopher.ucdavis.edu
Full file name: /pub/IETF/WNILS/Architecture.Index.Service
Document Title: Architecture of the WHOIS++ Service
Location details:
Site: gopher.ucdavis.edu
Full file name: /pub/IETF/WNILS/Architecture.Overview
Document Title: Specifications for WHOIS Services
Location details:
Site: gopher.ucdavis.edu
Full file name: /pub/IETF/WNILS/Discussion.Paper
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Bibliography:
See the documentation section of this template.
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Other Information:
As this is a coming attraction, we encourage people to get in on the
ground floor. The authors of this protocol see it as potentially
being a key player in any integrated Internet information
architecture, and we can always use more volunteers who want to
beta-test code for us.
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APPENDIX E Extinct Critters (Tools) This section will contain information on Tools moved from the main body of the report as the Tool falls out of common usage. There are no items currently in this section. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= APPENDIX F Extinct Critters (Groups) This section will be used as a historical record of groups which were once in the main body of the report, but which have since been closed. Items in this section: IAFA Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= IAFA Date template updated or checked: 8th July 1993 By: Name: Peter Deutsch Email Address: peterd@bunyip.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NIR Group Name: Internet Anonymous File Archive Working Group Sponsoring Organisation: IETF Working subgroups: none. Description of main group: This working group came to completion during the IETF meeting in November, 1992 and two Internet drafts are are now circulating. The archive for this mailing list is currently available on "archives.cc.mcgill.ca" via anonymous ftp in the file "pub/mailing-lists/iafa". -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Primary Contact(s):
Name: Peter Deutsch
Email address: peterd@bunyip.com
Postal address: Bunyip Information Systems
266 Blvd Neptune
Dorval, Quebec H9S 2L4
CANADA
Telephone: +1-514-398-3709
Fax: +1-514-398-6876
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Mailing Lists:
Address: iafa@cc.mcgill.ca
Administration: iafa-request@cc.mcgill.ca
Description: Discussion list for the IAFA Working Group
concerning the administration of anonymous FTP
archive sites.
Keywords: IETF, IAFA, anonymous, FTP, archive, Internet,
archie
Archive: The archive for this mailing list is currently
available on "archives.cc.mcgill.ca" via
anonymous FTP in the file
"pub/mailing-lists/iafa".
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News groups:
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Document Archive:
Location details:
Site: archives.cc.mcgill.ca
Directory: pub/mailing-lists/iafa
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Official Publications: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bibliography: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Information: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Z39.50
Date template updated or checked: 8th July 1993
By: Name: Jane Smith
Email Address: Jane.Smith@cnidr.org
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NIR Group Name: Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed
Sponsoring Organisation: Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Architectures and Standards Program
Working subgroups:
Name of subgroup:
Mailinglist-Address:
Description of main group:
Program priorities are 1) to facilitate a consistent and complete
mechanism for linking bibliographic, abstracting, and indexing files
to files of their associated source materials; 2) a single standard
for the transmission of bitmapped image files; 3) protocols for
handing networked requests for delivery of source materials; 4)
mechanisms for interorganizational authentication, accounting, and
billing; and 5) to integrate lessons drawn from the experience of
pilot projects that exercise networked printing utilities and 6) to
provide an "interoperability workshop" to specify, implement, and test
advanced functions of Z39.50 to accelerate the pace and to ensure the
quality of standardization efforts in this area.
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: Clifford Lynch
Email address: Clifford.Lynch@ucop.edu
Postal address: Off. of the President
Unv. of California
300 Lakeside Dr.,
8th Flr. Oakland, CA 94612-3350 USA
Telephone: +1-415-987-0522
Fax: +1-415-839-3573
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Mailing Lists:
Address: Z3950iw@NERVM.NERDC.UFL.EDU
Administration: LISTSERV@NERVM.NERDC.UFL.EDU
Description: Implementors' list for low level discussions
of protocol details.
Archive:
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News groups: None
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Document Archive:
Location details:
Site: ftp.cni.org
Directory: /CNI/projects/
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Official Publications: None
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Bibliography: None
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Other Information: None
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