[10458] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Mirror Negotiation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Morin)
Mon Dec 9 19:31:26 1996
From: Brian Morin <bmorin@WPI.EDU>
To: "'www-talk@w3.org'" <www-talk@w3.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 19:12:45 -0500
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Govind Tatachari Wrote:
"1) standard encoding for mirrored information
This would provide a uniform URL structure to indicate that the
information may be mirrored and further negotiations and policy
resolution can be used to select the location best suited to get
the information. The uniform URL structure can be patterned as
gr<type>.<resource/information-identifier>.<master-location>,
wherein, the gr<type> indicates that the information may be mirrored
(replicated). For example, grftp may mean that the file is possibly
replicated. grhttp would mean that the hypertext information is
replicated and so on. The <resource/information-identifier> would
provide a unique resource/information identifier and <master-location>
would provide a means to specify atleast one known master server."
There is an issue here of how to handle the primary to mirror mapping =
of URLs. However, I think that expanding the current URL specification =
would make create problems in updating current applications and =
maintaining backwards compatibility.
Brian Morin
Student at WPI
Author of Fnord Web Server
