Dear colleagues, After having confronted my old proposal for registering a new RIPE DB object describing network resources with the ongoing activities on network information discovery and uniform resource [locator,name, identifier ...] I have changed my views on the resources as objects registered in RIPE DB. My proposal was more aimed at registering servers (ftp, gopher, WWW, wais ...) rather than information about individual resources (single document, file, package, database access etc.) which is in fact what the users really need. Also the NCC registration procedures are not scaled for this type of task. Ther clear tendency now is towards automatic or semi-automatic resource registration procedures (archie and veronica can serve as examples). The resource indexing and registration seem to become a new type of network service which belongs more to network service providers rather than to the NCC. The role of the NCC rather be to help to coordinate this new type of services and maybe registrate and disseminate pointer information about network resource registration services in Eurooe. For the above reason I would like to withdraw my proposal for a resource object in RIPE DB. RIPE should probably keep an eye on recent evolutions in this field but probably shouldn't get directly involved with the resource registration process itself. Regards Milan Sterba P.S. Here are some references to documents which lead me to this decision : Weider, Chris : Resource transponders, March 1993 (internet draft - draft-ietf-iiir-transponders-00.txt) Berners-Lee, Tim : Uniform Resource Locators, July 1993 (internet draft - draft-ietf-uri-url-01.{txt,ps}) Weider, Chris, Deutsch, Peter : A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Service (internet-draft - draft-ietf-iiir-vision-00.txt) -- BEWARE - MY TELEPHONE NUMBER HAS CHANGED !!!! ====================================================================== Prague University of Economics e-mail : Milan.Sterba@vse.cz Computing Center tel : +42 2 24 21 79 00 nam. W. Churchilla 4 home: +42 2 823 78 59 130 67 Praha 3 fax : +42 2 236 46 24 Czech republic =======================================================================