RFC 1689
A Status Report on Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups
Pages: 226
FYI 25
FYI 25
Part 2 of 7 – Pages 35 to 69
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: 2.00.00
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher server for IBM VM/CMS installations.
Approximate number of such servers in use:
Unknown.
General comments:
This server was written and is maintained by Gerhard Gonter.
This server is commonly referred to as the Vienna VM/CMS server.
There is also another VM/CMS server: the Rice VM/CMS server.
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: MVS
Primary Contact:
Name: Steve Bacher
Email address: seb@draper.com
Telephone:
Server software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu:/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: 2.1
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher server for IBM MVS installations.
Approximate number of such servers in use:
Unknown.
General comments:
This server was written and is maintained by Steve Bacher.
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Unix veronica server
Primary Contact:
Name: Steve Foster
Email address: gophadm@futique.scs.unr.edu
Telephone:
Server software available from:
Via FTP: veronica.scs.unr.edu:/veronica
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
veronica server software
Approximate number of such servers in use:
Unknown.
General comments:
Written and maintained by Steve Foster at the
University of Nevada.
Future plans: Additional support for searching on Gopher+ attributes
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Clients:
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Macintosh
Primary Contact
Name: The Internet Gopher Development Team
Email address: gopher@micro.umn.edu
Telephone: +1-612-625-1300
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
One of the many Macintosh Gopher clients. Requires MacTCP.
General comments:
Macintosh TurboGopher is as of this writing, the fastest
Gopher client available for the Mac. Written by the
Minnesota Gopher Development Team. Supports Gopher+.
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Macintosh
Primary Contact:
Name: Don Gilbert, Biology, Indiana
University - Bloomington
Email address: Software@Bio.Indiana.Edu
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: Indiana University Gopher Server
IUBio Software+Data/GopherApp,
Mac Gopher client
Via FTP: ftp.bio.indiana.edu:/util/gopher/
gopherapp/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
One of the many Macintosh Gopher clients. Requires MacTCP.
General comments:
Written and maintained by Don Gilbert. Supports Gopher+.
Future plans:
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Macintosh
Primary Contact:
Name: "Jonzy"
Email address: JONZY@CC.UTAH.EDU
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: gopher.cc.utah.edu in Testing directory
Via FTP: ftp.cc.utah.edu:/pub/gopher/Macintosh/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
One of the many Macintosh Gopher clients. Requires MacTCP.
Has a browser style interface.
Uses customized Telnet application.
General comments:
Written and maintained by "Jonzy".
Future plans:
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: UNIX (curses/EMACS based client)
Primary Contact:
Name: The Internet Gopher Development Team
Email address: gopher@micro.umn.edu
Telephone: +1-612-625-1300
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
The UNIX curses-based client.
General comments:
Written and maintained by Paul Lindner. Supports Gopher+.
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: UNIX (simple client does not use CURSES)
Primary Contact:
Name: Sean Fuller
Email address: fuller@aedc-vax.af.mil
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: 0.3
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
sgopher is a simple gopher client for inetd/batch/online; it does not
require much of the terminal other than it be 80X24 characters. It
can be run stand alone or it can be launched from inetd. It doesn't
use termcap or curses. Sgopher outputs the \r\n pair at the end of
line and requires a <return> after each command to support more
terminal types.
General comments:
Runs on VMS, IRIX, Ultrix, AIX, Solaris 2.x, Solaris 1.x
Future plans:
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Xgopher: UNIX XWindows based client
Primary Contact:
Name: Allan Tuchman
Email address: tuchman@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Makes use of the X interface.
General comments:
Written and maintained by Allan Tuchman.
Future plans: Gopher+ support planned for the future.
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Xgopher: UNIX XWindows based client
Primary Contact:
Name: Andrew Scherpbier
Email address: xvgopher@gopher.sdsu.edu
turtle@sciences.sdsu.edu
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Makes use of the X interface... displays a way cool chewing gopher
icon while information is being downloaded.
General comments:
XView based gopher client.
Future plans: Gopher+ support.
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: NeXT: NeXTstep client
Primary Contact:
Name: The Internet Gopher Development Team
Email address: gopher@micro.umn.edu
Telephone: +1-612-625-1300
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Makes full use of the NeXT interface.
General comments:
Initial version written by Max Tardiveau.
Now maintained by Paul Lindner.
Future plans:
-------------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: DOS TurboVision w/Clarkson packet
drivers
Primary Contact:
Name: The Internet Gopher Development Team
Email address: gopher@micro.umn.edu
Telephone: +1-612-625-1300
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Character-based graphics and windows under DOS. Uses either Clarkson
Packet drivers (CRWYN packet drivers) and a built-in TCP/IP protocol
stack or Ftp, Inc.'s protocol stack (PC/TCP).
General comments:
Gopher+ support.
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: VMS.
Primary Contact:
Name: Mark Van Overbeke
Email address: mark@ummvxm.mrs.umn.edu
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: 0.6
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
General comments:
The VMS client was written and is maintained by Mark Van Overbeke.
Future plans:
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: VMS.
Primary Contact:
Name: The Internet Gopher Development Team
Email address: gopher@micro.umn.edu
Telephone: +1-612-625-1300
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: 1.12
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Identical to Unix gopher1.12. Works on a VMS 5.5-2 system running
MultiNet 3.1B. UCX and Wollongong are also supported.
General comments:
A port of the University of Minnesota Unix client to VMS.
Future plans:
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: VM/CMS.
Primary Contact:
Name: Rick Troth
Email address: TROTH@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher client for IBM VM/CMS installations.
General comments:
This client was written and is maintained by Rick Troth.
This client is commonly referred to as the Rice VM/CMS client.
There is also another VM/CMS client: the Vienna VM/CMS client.
Future plans:
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: VM/CMS.
Primary Contact:
Name: Gerhard Gonter
Email address: Gerhard.Gonter@WU-Wien.ac.at
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher client for IBM VM/CMS installations.
General comments:
This client was written and is maintained by Gerhard Gonter.
This client is commonly referred to as the Vienna VM/CMS client.
There is also another VM/CMS client: the Rice VM/CMS client.
Future plans:
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: DOS with PC/TCP.
Primary Contact:
Name: Steven E. Newton
Email address: snewton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via FTP: oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu:/public/dos/misc/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher client for DOS with PC/TCP
General comments:
Written and maintained by Steven E. Newton
Future plans:
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: DOS with PC-NFS.
Primary Contact:
Name: Stan Barber
Email address: sob@TMC.EDU
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via FTP: bcm.tmc.edu:/nfs/gopher.exe
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher client for DOS with PC-NFS
General comments:
Written and maintained by Stan Barber
Future plans:
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: DOS Novell LWP Gopher Client
Primary Contact:
Name: Jeremy T. James
Email address: blackp@med.umich.edu
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via FTP: lennon.itn.med.umich.edu:pub/gopher
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
DOS Novell LWP Gopher Client
General comments:
Written and maintained by Jeremy T. James.
Future plans:
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Windows 3.1 with Winsock or PC/NFS.
Primary Contact:
Name: Martyn Hampson
Email address: m.hampson@ic.ac.uk
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: lister.cc.ic.ac.uk
/pub/wingopher
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher client for Windows; uses either Winsock DLL or PC/NFS network
interface.
General comments:
Written and maintained by Martyn Hampson. Gopher+ support.
Future plans:
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Windows with Winsock and ToolBook.
Primary Contact:
Name: Kevin Gamiel
Email address: kgamiel@kudzu.cnidr.org
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/gophbook.zip
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: 1.0
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher client for Windows; uses Asymetrix's ToolBook to paint the
screen and speaks to the network via a Winsock DLL.
General comments:
Written and maintained by Kevin Gamiel
Future plans:
------------------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Air Gopher commercial client for windows
Primary Contact:
Name: David Pool, Spry Software, Inc.
Email address: dave@spry.com
Telephone: +1-206-447-0300
Client software available from:
Location of more information:
Latest version number:
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
General Comments:
Future plans:
Gopher+ support planned.
------------------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Win Gopher
Primary Contact:
Name: Bill Easton, Notis, Inc.
Telephone: +1-708-866-0159
Client software available from:
Location of more information:
Latest version number:
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
General Comments:
Requires Winsock. Supports gopher.
Future plans:
Gopher+ support planned.
------------------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: GINA
Primary Contact:
Name: Mark Resmer, California Technology
Project
Email address: resmer@eis.calstale.edu
Client software available from:
Location of more information:
Latest version number:
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
General Comments:
Macintosh and windows clients include netnews, email.
Future plans:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Demonstration sites:
List of sites which are willing to act as demonstration
sites for this application.
site name ip address login as serving area
----------------------------------------------------------------
consultant.micro.umn.edu 134.84.132.4 gopher North America
gopher.uiuc.edu 128.174.33.160 gopher North America
panda.uiowa.edu 128.255.40.201 panda North America
info.anu.edu.au 150.203.84.20 info Australia
gopher.chalmers.se 129.16.221.40 gopher Sweden
tolten.puc.cl 146.155.1.16 gopher South America
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Documentation:
Title: (1) Gopher Protocol and
(2) Gopher+ Proposed Extensions
Location details:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Title: RFC 1436 The Internet Gopher Protocol
(a distributed document search and retrieval
protocol)
Via FTP: nic.ddn.mil
/rfc/rfc1436.txt
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Bibliography:
The Whole Internet, Ed Kroll, O'Reilly, 1992
The Internet Gopher, "ConneXions", July 1992, Interop.
Exploring Internet GopherSpace "The Internet Society News", v1n2 1992
The Internet Gopher Protocol, Proceedings of the Twenty-Third
IETF, CNRI, Section 5.3
Internet Gopher, Proceedings of Canadian Networking '92
The Internet Gopher, INTERNET: Getting Started, SRI
International, Section 10.5.5
Tools help Internet users discover on-line treasures, Computerworld,
July 20, 1992
TCP/IP Network Administration, O'Reilly.
Balakrishan, B. (Oct 1992) "SPIGopher: Making SPIRES databases
accessible through the Gopher protocol". SPIRES Fall '92
Workshop, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
----------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Information: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
HYTELNET
Date template updated or checked: 28 February, 1994
By: Name: Peter Scott
Email address: aa375@freenet.carleton.ca
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
NIR Tool Name: HYTELNET
Brief Description of Tool:
HYTELNET is a terminate-and-stay-resident hypertext browser, which
gives a user full instructions for logging into telnet-accessible
sites on the Internet i.e., library catalogs, campus-wide information
systems, bulletin boards, directory services, gophers, etc. The
browser does not make remote connections. A Unix/VMS version, which
does make remote connections, has been written by Earl Fogel,
Computing Services, University of Saskatchewan. Macintosh and Amiga
versions are also available (see ftp site information below).
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Primary Contact(s):
Name: Peter Scott
Email address: aa375@freenet.carleton.ca
Postal Address: 324 8th Street East
Saskatoon, Sask, Canada S7H 0P5
Telephone: +1-306-966-5920
Fax: +1-306-966-6040
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Help Line:
Name: Peter Scott
Email address: aa375@freenet.carleton.ca
Telephone: +1-306-966-5920
Level of support offered:
o volunteer
Hours available: 8:00 a.m - 3:30 p.m CST
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Related Working Groups:
None
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source:
None
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Mailing Lists: HYTELNET Updates Distribution
Address: hytel-l@kentvm.kent.edu
Administration: By listowner Peter Scott
aa375@freenet.carleton.ca
Description:
To inform members of new versions of the software, and to keep users
informed of new/changed/defunct Telnet-accessible sites
To subscribe send e-mail message to listserv@kentvm.kent.edu with
no subject, and sub hytel-l firstname lastname as the body of the
message.
Archive: None
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
News groups: bit.listserv.hytel-l
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Protocols:
What is supported:
What it runs over:
Other NIR tools this interworks with:
Future plans: Possible translation into gopher format
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Servers:
None.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Clients:
Date completed or updated: 21 December, 1993
By: Name: Peter Scott
Email address: aa375@freenet.carleton.ca
Platform: DOS
Primary Contact
Name: Peter Scott
Email address: aa375@freenet.carleton.ca
Telephone: +1-306-966-5920
Client software available from:
ftp.usask.ca in
pub/hytelnet/pc as hytelnXX.zip, where XX = latest version number.
pub/hytelnet/{amiga,unix,vms,mac}/* for respective versions
Location of more information: finger scottp@jester.usask.ca
Latest version number: 6.6 (Issued October 23, 1993)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
General comments:
Future plans:
To contine to produce updated versions in current form.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Demonstration sites:
The Unix/VMS version can be accessed via telnet to access.usask.ca
(login: hytelnet)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Documentation: None ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bibliography: HYTELNET as software for accessing the Internet: a personal perspective on the development of HYTELNET. Electronic Networking, Vol. 2, No. 1 Spring 1992 pp 38-44 Hypertext...Information at your fingertips. In: Designing Information: new roles for librarians. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Information: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
NETFIND
Date template updated or checked: 1 March, 1994
By: Name: Mike Schwartz
Email address: schwartz@cs.colorado.edu
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
NIR Tool Name: Netfind
Brief Description of Tool:
Given the name of a person on the Internet and a rough description of
where the person works, Netfind attempts to locate information about
the person. People can be specified by first, last, or login name.
Their place of work can be described by name and/or the
city/state/country.
Netfind provides textual information about people, when it is able to
locate such information. It is not a directory in the usual sense of
the word. Rather, it searches for people using a number of Internet
services and heuristics about how to locate user information.
Because of the techniques it uses, Netfind can locate information
about more people than any other Internet user directory - over 5
million people in over 9,000 domains worldwide when last measured.
You can use the University of Colorado Netfind server by telnet to
bruno.cs.colorado.edu: login as "netfind" (with no password). Help
screens providing more detailed instructions and technical
information are available there. There is currently no way for non-
Internet users to access Netfind (e.g., using an email interface).
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Primary Contact(s):
Name: Mike Schwartz
Email address: netfind-dvl@cs.colorado.edu
Postal Address: Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0430
Telephone: Declined. (Note: Netfind is currently a
volunteer service. We do not have staff
resources to support telephone inquiries.)
Fax: Declined.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Help Line:
There are an increasing number of Netfind servers being set up at
various Network Information Centers (including the U.S. Internic).
However, since Netfind is provided as a volunteer service at this
time, there is no help line.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Related Working Groups:
Gopher, NIR, IIIR, IRTF-RD.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source:
None. Netfind was originally a research prototype. It is offered
as-is, on an unsupported basis. From time to time the original
developers make improvements, but it is not currently funded.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Mailing Lists:
Address: netfind-users@cs.colorado.edu
Administration: netfind-users-request@cs.colorado.edu
Description: mailing list for user changes and updates.
Archive: None.
----------------------------
Address: netfind-servers@cs.colorado.edu
Administration: netfind-servers-request@cs.colorado.edu
Description: mailing list for sites running Netfind servers.
Archive: None.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
News groups:
None.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Protocols:
What is supported: NVT ASCII. At present no formal protocol is
used. We are currently implementing a client/
server protocol, which will allow better clients
and more efficient servers.
What it runs over: TCP/IP.
Other NIR tools this interworks with:
Finger, Gopher, PH, SMTP, USENET news, UUCP
maps, Various NIC databases, Various service
logs, WAIS, WHOIS, X.500, DNS
Future plans:
Many. Telnet to the server and see the "Future Directions" menu
under the "Frequently Asked Questions" help menu.
In addition to the above list, we are currently exploring
possibilities to integrate the Netfind seed database gathering
mechanisms into the Fremont framework, to make the process more
scalable, and to support other types of information (e.g., to help
with mapping the Internet).
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Servers:
Date completed or updated: October 12, 1993
By: Name: Mike Schwartz
Email address: schwartz@cs.colorado.edu
Platform: SunOS 4.1 or more recent. Uncertain
whether Netfind will run on Solaris.
Primary Contact:
Name: Mike Schwartz
Email address: schwartz@cs.colorado.edu
Telephone: (not supplied)
Server software available from: ftp.cs.colorado.edu, in the
directory pub/cs/distribs/netfind.
Location of more information: in above directory.
Latest version number: 4.4.
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
This version of Netfind incorporates the ability for sites to
register a set of URLs in their DNS server, pointing Netfind to a
variety of different sources for information. Netfind can now tap
information from X.500, WHOIS, and PH, in addition to the previous
sources it used (finger, etc.). For more information see
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/distribs/netfind/Netfind.WP.URLs
Approximate number of such servers in use:
17 public servers; hundreds or thousands of private stand-alone
clients.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Clients:
The Netfind client is available in the same release as the server.
See above.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Demonstration sites:
Site name: bruno.cs.colorado.edu
The current list is:
archie.au (AARNet, Melbourne, Australia)
bruno.cs.colorado.edu (University of Colorado, Boulder)
dino.conicit.ve (Nat. Council for Techn. & Scien. Research,
Venezuela)
ds.internic.net (InterNIC Directory and DB Services,
S. Plainfield, NJ)
eis.calstate.edu (California State University, Fullerton, CA)
lincoln.technet.sg (Technet Unit, Singapore)
malloco.ing.puc.cl (Catholic University of Chile, Santiago)
monolith.cc.ic.ac.uk (Imperial College, London, England)
mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)
netfind.anu.edu.au (Australian National University, Canberra)
netfind.ee.mcgill.ca (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
netfind.if.usp.br (University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
netfind.oc.com (OpenConnect Systems, Dallas, Texas)
netfind.vslib.cz (Liberec University of Technology, Czech Republic)
nic.nm.kr (Korea Network Information Center, Taejon, Korea)
nic.uakom.sk (Academy of Sciences, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia)
redmont.cis.uab.edu (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Documentation:
There are three primary sets of information available about Netfind.
The first is a set of help information, available in the FTP
distribution as well as from the help screens available from any
Netfind server. This information includes a fairly complete set of
Frequently Asked Questions, as well as user help information and
pointers to other related information. The second is a
pre-publication version of a technical paper about Netfind, available
in
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/techreports/schwartz/PostScript/
Netfind.Gathering.ps.Z (compressed PostScript)
or
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/techreports/schwartz/ASCII/
Netfind.Gathering.txt.Z (compressed ASCII).
An earlier paper is also available in
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/techreports/schwartz/PostScript/
White.Pages.ps.Z
or
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/techreports/schwartz/ASCII/
White.Pages.txt.Z,
containing some of the original ideas in Netfind and measurements of
the system. The Netfind.Gathering paper contains an up-to-date
description of the data gathering and integration algorithms.
The third source of information focuses particularly on the URL-based
remote site customization mechanism, and is available in
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/distribs/netfind/Netfind.WP.URLs
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Bibliography:
Netfind is one prototype developed by the Networked Resource Discovery
Project, at the University of Colorado - Boulder. A bibliography and
set of project papers is available by anonymous FTP from
ftp.cs.colorado.edu, in pub/cs/techreports/schwartz. This directory contains a file called "README" that contains a project overview and bibliography. The files in this directory are also available via an electronic mail interface. For more information, send a mail message to infosrv@ftp.cs.colorado.edu, containing the message body (not subject line) "send HELP" (without quotes). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
PROSPERO
Date template updated or checked: 1 March, 1994
By: Name: Steven Augart
Email address: info-prospero@isi.edu
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
NIR Tool Name: Prospero
Brief Description of Tool:
The Prospero directory service supports a user centered view of files
scattered across the Internet. It can be used to organize references
to files as if they were on your local system, without the need to
physically move them.
Prospero provides access to existing directories and indices that can
be used to find files of interest that are available from Internet
archive sites. Among the indices available is the archie database
and a gateway to all Gopher menus, files, and searches. We hope to
have WAIS indices and World Wide Web documents online in the near
future.
Prospero also provides a mechanism to make directories and indices
available to end-users and applications in a format that allows
information from different sources to be integrated into a coherent
whole.
Prospero does not interpret the data that it organizes. It does
provide mechanisms to retrieve the data, but the display and use of
the data is up to the user's application. Prospero is intended to
serve as infrastructure that integrates information from a variety of
sources and supports a variety of user applications.
Prospero allows fine grained authorization of requests to all
objects, including directories and indices. Prospero supports the
authentication of clients through four mechanisms: (a) simple client
assertion of the user's identity; (b) a trusted port mechanism
similar to that used by the Berkeley UNIX R commands; (c) a simple
cleartext passwording mechanism; (d) Kerberos (version 5). The
maintainer of an ACL chooses which of these mechanisms he or she
wishes to accept as proof of the client's identity.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Primary Contact(s):
Name: Info Prospero (preferred contact address)
Email address: info-prospero@isi.edu
--------------------------
Name: Clifford Neuman
Email address: bcn@isi.edu
Postal Address: U.S.C. Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
U.S.A.
Telephone: +1-310-822-1511
------------------------
Name: Steven Augart
Email address: swa@isi.edu
Postal Address: U.S.C. Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
U.S.A.
Telephone: +1-310-822-1511
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Help Line:
Name: Info Prospero
Email address: info-prospero@isi.edu
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Related Working Groups:
IETF IAFA WG
IETF IIIR WG
IETF URI WG
IETF NIR WG
IRTF Resource Discovery WG
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source:
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
The design and implementation was supported in part by the National
Science Foundation (Grant No. CCR-8619663), the Washington Technology
Center, Digital Equipment Corporation, and the Advanced Research
Projects Agency under NASA Cooperative Agreement NCC-2-539.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Mailing Lists:
Address: info-prospero@ISI.EDU
Administration: info-prospero-request@ISI.EDU
Description: This mailing list is really two one-way mailing
lists. Send mail to INFO-PROSPERO to obtain
information about Prospero, papers, or the
release. Mail to INFO-PROSPERO will not be
passed on to subscribers. INFO-PROSPERO is also
the list to which we will send status updates
and information on how to obtain new releases.
Archive: Via anonymous FTP to PROSPERO.ISI.EDU as
/pub/prospero/mail/info-prospero.arc
Via Prospero in the "#/INET/EDU/ISI/GUEST/prototype" virtual
system as /sites/isi.edu/pub/prospero/mail/info-prospero.arc
--------------------------
Address: prospero@ISI.EDU
Administration: prospero-request@ISI.EDU
Description: This mailing list is for general discussion of
Prospero, for announcements of new sites that
have come on board, and for announcements of
directories that people have created to organize
the information already accessible.
Archive: Via anonymous FTP to PROSPERO.ISI.EDU as
/pub/prospero/mail/prospero.arc
Via Prospero in the "#/INET/EDU/ISI/GUEST/prototype" virtual
system as /sites/isi.edu/pub/prospero/mail/prospero.arc.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
News groups:
NONE
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Protocols:
What is supported:
Prospero directory service requests are formatted
according to the Prospero protocol.
Prospero does not have its own file retrieval
protocol. Files may be automatically retrieved using
FTP, NFS, AFS, and GOPHER. Loginable services may also be
accessed via TELNET.
What it runs over:
Directory service requests are layered on top of
UDP, with our own (included) reliable message delivery
layer.
Other NIR tools this interworks with:
Archie, Gopher, Wais, WWW
Future plans:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Servers:
Date completed or updated: 1 November, 1993
Platform: UNIX
Primary Contact:
Name: Clifford Neuman and Steven Augart
Email address: info-prospero@isi.edu
Telephone: +1-310-822-1511
Server software available from:
Via anonymous FTP: PROSPERO.ISI.EDU, /pub/prospero/prospero.tar.Z
Via Prospero: /releases/prospero/prospero.tar.Z, in the
"#/INET/EDU/ISI/GUEST/prototype" virtual system.
Note that the name prospero.tar.Z refers to the most stable release
(currently Beta version 5.1). If you want the latest version of
the server (which includes the Gopher gateway), you should retrieve
it by version number; the name for the latest version is
prospero-alpha.5.2.tar.Z
Location of more information:
Contained within the release.
Latest version number:
Alpha Version 5.3
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
The server allows the maintainer to make directory information
available about selected portions of the server's filesystem, such as
anonymously FTPable files. The server also is used to publish
information from other databases, such as Archie. The server also
allows users and maintainers to store their own customized organizing
views of the namespace. Release Alpha.5.2 of the server includes a
gateway feature which treats all Gopher servers as a Prospero
database.
Approximate number of such servers in use:
50
General comments:
Future plans:
We have a prototype NFS server that makes Prospero queries, but it is
not yet ready to release. We plan to develop a gateway similar to
the existing Gopher gateway feature for World Wide Web. There is
also active work being done on exporting WAIS indices through
Prospero in a way similar to the way the archie database is exported.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Clients:
Date completed or updated: 1st November, 1993
Platform: UNIX
Primary Contact
Name: Clifford Neuman and Steven Augart
Email address: info-prospero@isi.edu
Telephone: +1-310-822-1511
Client software available from:
Via anonymous FTP: PROSPERO.ISI.EDU, /pub/prospero/prospero.tar.Z
Via Prospero: /releases/prospero/prospero.tar.Z, in the
"#/INET/EDU/ISI/swa" virtual system.
Note that the name prospero.tar.Z refers to the most stable release
(currently Beta version 5.1). If you want the latest version of
the clients (which includes the Prospero menu browser), you should
retrieve it by version number; the name for the latest version is
prospero-alpha.5.2.tar.Z
Latest Version number:
Alpha Version 5.2
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
We provide two client interfaces. The older one is a command-line
client, which can be configured to use the same syntax to navigate
through the Prospero namespace that a user uses to navigate through
the UNIX filesystem. ("cd", "ls", etc.) The newer one is a menu-
based file and directory browser similar to the UNIX Gopher client.
General comments:
Archie clients also make queries in the Prospero namespace, so all
Archie clients are Prospero clients too. They are better described
in the Archie report.
Future plans:
We are working on enhancing the menu browser client to allow users to
remotely customize and update virtual systems. We plan to develop a
Prospero hypertext browser.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Demonstration sites:
A guest virtual system is available on PROSPERO.ISI.EDU. However, to
use it, you must compile the Prospero command-line client on your own
machine. Instructions for using it come with the Prospero
distribution.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Documentation:
All of these papers are available via anonymous FTP from
PROSPERO.ISI.EDU. They may additionally be obtained through
Prospero itself by preceding the 'Full file name:' given below with
'/sites/isi.edu' and looking in the '#/INET/EDU/ISI/GUEST/prototype'
virtual system.
Document Title: The Prospero Protocol, version 5
Location details:
Site: PROSPERO.ISI.EDU
Full file name: /pub/prospero/doc/prospero-protocol.PS.Z
Document Title: Prospero User's Manual
Location details:
Site: PROSPERO.ISI.EDU
Full file name: /pub/prospero/doc/prospero-user-manual.PS.Z
Document Title: Prospero Library Manual
Location details:
Site: PROSPERO.ISI.EDU
Full file name: /pub/prospero/doc/prospero-library-manual.PS.Z
Document Title: Prospero Menu-based Browser API Manual
Location details:
Site: PROSPERO.ISI.EDU
Full file name: /pub/prospero/doc/prospero-menu-api.PS.Z
Document Title: Description of Prospero Documents and Papers
Location details:
Site: PROSPERO.ISI.EDU
Full file name: /pub/prospero/papers/README-prospero-documents
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Bibliography:
A bibliography listing all publicly available Prospero documents and
papers is available via anonymous FTP from PROSPERO.ISI.EDU as
/pub/prospero/README-prospero-documents The following papers are also
available via anonymous FTP from PROSPERO.ISI.EDU:
Prospero:/papers/subjects/operating-systems/prospero/prospero-bii.ps.Z
Anonymous FTP: /pub/papers/prospero/prospero-bii.ps.Z
(POSTSCRIPT)
@INPROCEEDINGS{prosperobii,
(next page on part 3)