[35856] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Search Engine Accountability (was RE: Reality Check)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Mar 16 16:19:29 2001
Message-Id: <200103162003.f2GK3od06447@foo-bar-baz.cc.vt.edu>
To: Karyn Ulriksen <kulriksen@publichost.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:36:31 PST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15:03:50 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:36:31 PST, Karyn Ulriksen said:
> Search Engine requires a key certificate style license embeded in
> the html or website (whether it's internet centralized or just for the
And the key came from *where*? And this would be different from the
current hassles of getting a PKI certificate *how*?
> search engine). A "rating" and "type" is associated with the license for
> the type of site it is. As the search engine crawls the site, if the
> license is gone... it doesn't get listed. If the type and rating doesn't
Woo woo.. So I have to fork over $$$ to a company to publish stuff on the
web? Or is this license "for free" - in which case it's probably worth
what you paid for it?
> match the information associated with the license data... it doesn't get
OK.. A .JPG of a man and a giraffe would probably be acceptable for all
ratings. A .JPG of a man and a giraffe having sex would probably NOT be
acceptable. How did you tell the difference?
> listed. If the license certificate doesn't match the IP(s) associated with
> the certificate... it doesn't get listed. Has anybody tried something like
Great. I relocate my server to a new co-lo and I drop off the search engines
unless I fork out new money for a new license. And if you don't think this
won't happen, I'll point you at all the companies that we currently license
software from who are *always* ready at the drop of a hat to ship us a new
license for a machine "because the CPU planar died and was replaced so the
hostid is now different". Yeah. We *never* have a problem getting new
licenses. ;)
> this before?
Umm.. there's PICS and other web rating systems already extant.
They've worked wonders, haven't they?
Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
