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>One of the "related issues" in section 5 seems to point to distributed
>servers ("Server registration"). Exactly how servers should relay
>queries to each other is unclear to me. This probably needs additional
>mechanisms, not present in the current Dienst protocol.
The current implementation incorporates a "first-cut" at a
meta-server protocol. A central site (Cornell, at this point)
maintains a registry of existing Dienst servers, other sites
periodically query this site to update their tables. The current
design is rather primitive but lays the basis for what we'd like to
do in the future.
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>Regards,
>Bert
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>PS. "Dienst" appears to stand for "Distributed Interactive Extensible
>Network Server for Techreports", but I wonder if it is a coincidence
>that "dienst" is the Dutch word for "service"?
>--
No coincidence, one of the implementers (Jim Davis) is married to a
Dutch woman.
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