FYI: List of current proposals

Quoting from Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet's message:
> 
>   Hi David !
> 
> => 
> => What about the WWW/WAIS interface to the database?
> =
> =I will add it to the list. It probably slipped my mind (by my software
> =engineer perspective) since it is not part of the database software
> =itself, but a separate project.
> =
> =As far as me concerned, it is a very useful addition to the database
> =interfaces we already have and thus should be high on our priority list
> =(for the new website).
> 
>   I think that's 2 different issues:
>   
>   - WWW/WAIS access to the information contained in the DB
>   
> 	That's probably a separate project that might need some finishing
> 	touches from the DB software engineer(s)

I think what is needed is just install the software on one of the NCC
servers.  It is also possible, as a temporary solution, to insert a
link to our server which every day mirrors the RIPE-DB and creates the
wais indexes.

> 	
>   - WWW/HTML/HTTP functionality in the DB-SW package and the whois-server
>     and whois-client
>     
> 	That's from my point of view part of the item to include/provide
> 	means to register URLs (in some way or another) in the DB objects.
> 	But registering the URL strings itself is not a major problem (we
> 	could use a remarks field for that porpose as an interim
> 	measure - look at spt1-ripe :-), 
> 	but the *access* to the objects by way of an http or whois
> 	interface is! I haven't found a trick yet to make my browser 
> 	process an object as html code...

It is anyway needed to reformat the DB object in HTML. That is exactly
what the cgi-bin in our software does. We can cooperate to port
this part of software in a different context (whois ?).

> 	
>   For the moment I'd like to concentrate my efforts on the second aspect!
> 
>   David, is there a chance to meet you during the IETF to share some
>   drinks and thoughts?
>   
>   Wilfried.
> 


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