IRTF Resource Discovery directions

Mike Schwartz <schwartz@latour.cs.colorado.edu> Sat, 03 April 1993 05:30 UTC

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From: Mike Schwartz <schwartz@latour.cs.colorado.edu>
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Subject: IRTF Resource Discovery directions
Reply-To: Mike Schwartz <schwartz@latour.cs.colorado.edu>

The Internet Research Task Force Research Group on Resource Discovery
and Directory Service has been inactive for a while, mostly because the
group got too large to make effective progress.  I have reformed the
group to be a few researchers addressing a focused set of problems.  We
no longer have a mailing list (irtf-rd@cs.colorado.edu) or archive.

We have written a paper about our current directions, which is now
available by anonymous FTP from ftp.cs.colorado.edu, in the file
pub/cs/techreports/schwartz/PostScript/RD.ResearchProblems.ps.Z
(compressed PostScript) or in the file
pub/cs/techreports/schwartz/ASCII/RD.ResearchProblems.txt.Z (compressed
ASCII).  Here is the title/abstract:

        C. M. Bowman, P. B. Danzig and M. F. Schwartz.  Research
        Problems for Scalable Internet Resource Discovery.  Technical
        Report CU-CS-643-93, Department of Computer Science, University
        of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, March 1993.

Abstract:

        Over the past several years, a number of information discovery
        and access tools have been introduced in the Internet, including
        Archie, Gopher, Netfind, and WAIS.  These tools have become
        quite popular, and are helping to redefine how people think
        about wide area network applications.  Yet, they are not well
        suited to supporting the future information infrastructure,
        which will be characterized by enormous data volume, rapid
        growth in the user base, and burgeoning data diversity.  In this
        paper we indicate trends in these three dimensions, and survey
        problems these trends will create for current approaches.  We
        then suggest several promising directions of future resource
        discovery research, along with some initial results from
        projects carried out by members of the Internet Research Task
        Force Research Group on Resource Discovery and Directory
        Service.

IRTF Resource Discovery directions Mike Schwartz