Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!CS.UCL.AC.UK!J.Crowcroft From: J.Crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Jon Crowcroft) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: building an interstate (data) highway with no roadmaps Message-ID: <9106171532.AA27756@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 17 Jun 91 14:07:58 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 31 in the medium term, this may be helped a bit by the massive effort in the ietf directory group... in the longer term, shared file systems with clever chaching and replication, and shared window systems, and good navigation tools will be needed too... shared filesystem technology will obviate the need for (ftp foo.bar; ls; cd dirX)* type activity, but will lead to semi-efficient find -print shared window systems could lead to very fast combined help desk/bboard functionality ... instead of day lonmg exchanges like... mail fred "where'sA"; repl bloggs "in docs/goo.tar.Z" on fiasco.obscureUniversity.ac.uk repl fred "what do i do with .tar.Z files? by (pure) cooincidence, we have just been talking about rationalising ftp (re-)distribution here via AFS...as one example of order out of chaos the greatest hope is that the library/information service people who are used to terra-reference searchspaces will go on increasing their involvement the way they have started (e.g. our UCL/London librarians just ran a video conference last week over part of the internet to talk to some MIT and other librarians)... jon