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what finger tags?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Troth)
Fri Sep 9 13:58:44 1994
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 19:22:26 +0200
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From: Rick Troth <troth@rice.edu>
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Hi,
What if finger gateways were sophisticated enough to wrap
the various fields they return in specific tags? I mean, if you
finger troth@is.rice.edu, you'll get (partially)
Login name: troth In real life: Rick Troth
and a typical finger-to-HTML gateway might wrap that in
<pre>Login name: troth In real life: Rick Troth</pre>
What if in addition there were specific tags for login_name
and in_real_life. What should those tags be? I can imagine
Login name: <USER_LOGIN_NAME>troth</USER_LOGIN_NAME>
In real life: <USER_PERSONAL_NAME>Rick Troth
</USER_PERSONAL_NAME>
but those are a bit more verbose than I'd like to get.
There are *numerous* other directory service values that
might also be included. I guess we aren't up to taking on X.500, eh?
Seriously, though, this is something that I'd like to include in *my*
finger gateway, and I'd like to keep in step with everyone else.
Any self respecting WWW browser should quietly ignore tags
that it doesn't recognize. This gives us a nice migration path for
future browsers/clients that might actually use this information.
It would surely help user administration at *this* site.
--
Rick Troth <troth@rice.edu>, Rice University, Information Systems
