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... 2.2.3 Electronic Data Interchange ................ 5
2.2.4 Network Topology Information ................ 7
2.2.4.1 Shared Whois Information Project ................ 7
2.2.4.2 EARN's Network Directory ...
... Network Topology Information ................ 7
2.2.4.1 Shared Whois Information Project ................ 7
2.2.4.2 EARN's Network Directory ................ 8
2.2.5 Soft Pages ................ 9
2.2.6 X-Tel ................ 10
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... Company or Institution:
Laboratory of Computer Engineering and Networks,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)
Switzerland
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... security
services for unclassified but sensitive mail on the Defense Data
Network.
The directory will be based on QUIPU. Proof of concept is expected
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... Network Topology Information ...
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There are two projects in this area; Merit Network's Shared Whois
Information Project, and EARN's Network Directory.
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... There are two projects in this area; Merit Network's Shared Whois
Information Project, and EARN's Network Directory.
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Short Description:
The Shared Whois Project merges network data held by various
organizations. The principal purpose of merging this data is to
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... organizations. The principal purpose of merging this data is to
find and resolve conflicting network information between the
databases. The longterm goal of this project is to move away from
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... databases. The longterm goal of this project is to move away from
the current model of storing similar and/or duplicate network
information in multiple databases and to move to a X.500 ...
... database model. To this end, we are working on loading
the NSFNET network information into X.500 in anticipation of
participating in a distributed database ...
... Full Description:
The Shared Whois Project is a collection of programs and shell
scripts which collectively merges the network data held by each of
the participating organizations. Currently this includes Merit,
the RIPE-NCC ...
... principal purpose of merging
this vast quantity of data is to find and resolve conflicting
network information between the various databases. It is our
intent to merge this data bi-weekly and thus rapidly reach, and
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... databases. It is our
intent to merge this data bi-weekly and thus rapidly reach, and
thereafter maintain, a stable set of commonly held network
information.
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... held. Furthermore, the resulting set of data created by the merger
holds only one entry per network without attempting to combine the
variations. Thus, each entry includes a listing of all databases
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... variations. Thus, each entry includes a listing of all databases
found to contain information for that network as well as all
databases found to be in conflict with the entry held in the
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The longterm goal of this project is to move away from the current
model of storing similar and/or duplicate network information in
multiple databases and to move to a X.500 ...
... database
model. To this end, Merit is working to load the NSFNET network
information into X.500 in anticipation of participating in a trial
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... EARN's Network Directory ...
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Application Name: Ditnet/EARN Network Directory
Date Received: 7/7/1992
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Short Description:
The EARN/Bitnet Network database consists of descriptions of all
participating members, network ...
... Network database consists of descriptions of all
participating members, network nodes, adminstrators, and topology
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... X.500 subtree containing
descriptions of network nodes, adminstrational personnel, and
topology ...
... The Soft Pages Project combines an Archie-like file look-up service
with network configuration knowledge. A dedicated User Agent gives
a suggestion how to retrieve a document in a network traffic ...
... network configuration knowledge. A dedicated User Agent gives
a suggestion how to retrieve a document in a network traffic
optimized manner.
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Basically, Directory information introduced by Soft Pages falls
into two parts: A file information part and a network configuration
part.
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... keywords as well.
The network configuration part provides information on networks
(subnetworks ...
... Internet. Furthermore, IP
numbers can be mapped to network and node objects. In order to
evaluate file server sites, Internet ...
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If a document is stored at two or more sites, the site with the
lowest cost index (which naturally will be the "nearest" in network
terms) will be chosen for retrieval. A Soft Pages User Agent
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... X.500 DSA interface to XNS (Xerox Network Services) Clearinghouse
directory to provide access to Xerox Corporation's Clearinghouse via
X.500 ...
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Full Description:
Xerox uses the XNS network protocol suite to provide Mail, Filing,
Directory, Authentication, etc. network services ...
... network protocol suite to provide Mail, Filing,
Directory, Authentication, etc. network services for the installed
based of 45,000+ Xerox workstations. The Directory is based on the
XNS Clearinghouse protocol which is similar to X.500 ...