I think the appropriate way to indicate information about a site is with
the SITEINFO template from the IAFA/IIIR template set, at least as a starting
point. This should be a general approach to providing site-level information
(things like access policies, administrative contacts, physical location,
etc.) about servers. All we need is a conventional path, a la robots.txt,
where it should be looked for.
It's important to keep this general. For instance, an oft-mentioned dream is
for a WWW client to show a spinning globe with a blinking dot indicating
the location from which data is currently being fetched. SITEINFO can
include lat-long info, making this possible.
This template is discussed in draft-ietf-iiir-publishing-02. An
example is given at <URL:http://www.cs.indiana.edu/siteinfo.it> for
our site.
Some sites that are in ALIWEB already have such a template, along with a
bunch of other stuff, in a file usually named site.idx. I'd rather define
a separate location for just site-specific stuff, though; siteinfo.it seems
as good a name as any to me.
- Marc