RIPE Connectivity Document Store starting
Dear colleagues, Let me invite all network service providers/operators in Europe to fill and send to <cds-editor@ripe.net> short descriptions of their network to be stored in the RIPE Connectivity Document Store (CDS). This will be a new unified way of publishing basic information about european connectivity. Every network in Europe is free and willcome to publish it's fact-sheet. The CDS is accessible by WWW (http://www.ripe.net/ripe/cds.html), ftp, gopher and the description fact-sheets can also be retrieved by mail. The CDS is be closely related to the RIPE map repository (there are hypertext links between the textual descriptions of the network and their maps (if supplied). A detailed description of the layout, the procedures as well as an example of filled fact sheet (thanks to UNICOM Bulgaria) can be found in ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/drafts/connectivity-report-plan.txt. <cds-editor@ripe.net> and all users and potential users in the world are waiting impatiently for your fact-sheets (and maps :-). It is so simple to have the others know about you a little bit more and RIPE NCC as the European Internet registry is the best appropriate place where people go for information. Try to have a look at the current CDS by WWW at www.ripe.net or by gopher at gopher.ripe.net or simply by ftp. Comments and updates are very willcome. Best regards Milan Sterba Chair of the RIPE European Connectivity WG -- ====================================================================== 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 24 22 42 66 Czech republic =======================================================================
Would it not be more sensible for you to have a WWW index page only pointing to the www server of each service provider. That way you dont get accused of not keeping the info up-to-date and we keep control of the info:) Lets use the technology how it was intended! p.s. All service providers have www servers, dont they? What would be useful is if RIPE designed a sub-set of the service definitions draft RFC and sent that out as a questionaire and the published the collated results. Peter Dawe, Managing Director PIPEX Ltd.Email: peter@unipalm.co.uk Director Unipalm Limited, Voice: +44(0)223 250100 216 The Science Park, Milton Road Fax: +44(0)223 250101 Cambridge, England, CB4 4WA MIME Messages accepted
Peter Dawe <peter@unipalm.co.uk> writes: Would it not be more sensible for you to have a WWW index page only pointing to the www server of each service provider.
That way you dont get accused of not keeping the info up-to-date and we keep control of the info:)
Lets use the technology how it was intended!
That is my current thinking about how we will go about keeping a list of European Internet service providers.
p.s. All service providers have www servers, dont they?
This is one of the problems to get it started. But not a serious one as we can just accept ASCII text or HTML and store it at the NCC during the startup phase.
What would be useful is if RIPE designed a sub-set of the service definitions draft RFC and sent that out as a questionaire and the published the collated results.
1. The NCC currently has no manpower to do anything like that. We are awfully short as it is. 2. I would like to avoid that and use your first idea exclusively as the service providers will be responsible for their presentations themselves. 3. If RIPE would come up with a suggested structure for the presentations or a list of the topics that should/can be covered it would be very useful. Daniel Karrenberg, RIPE NCC, Europe <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net>
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