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Any work done on replication?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Everitt)
Thu Aug 18 09:46:54 1994
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 15:03:16 +0200
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From: Paul Everitt <paul@cminds.com>
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My business partner Lotus Notes specialist, and was preparing a response
to a "WWW is pathetic compared to Notes" that was full of misinformation.
One thing I couldn't adequately back him up on was the WWW equivalent of
replication. I just don't see (maybe I'm not looking in the right
places) very much discussion of server-server transactions on the web.
Things I have seen are:
-cache managers
-URNs
-HTTP version numbers (in the spec)
-a post (Dan Connolly, I think) about using netnews for "broadcast" docs
Martijn Koster has one of the first, I think, in distributing ALIWEB, but
even he recommends ftp-mirroring of the data!
There seem to be facilities in the specs, and I'm sure people are
working on it, but I don't have anything to argue with for a distributed
read/write, replicated, versioning system.
Thanks for any enlightenment.
Paul Everitt V 703.785.7384 Email Paul.Everitt@cminds.com
Connecting Minds, Inc. F 703.785.7385 WWW http://www.cminds.com/
