changed attitude to the proposed resource object

Dear colleagues,

After having confronted my old proposal for registering a new RIPE DB
object describing network resources with the ongoing activities on
network information discovery and uniform resource [locator,name,
identifier ...] I have changed my views on the resources as objects
registered in RIPE DB.
 
My proposal was more aimed at registering servers (ftp, gopher, WWW,
wais ...) rather than information about individual resources (single 
document, file, package, database access etc.) which is in fact what 
the users really need. Also the NCC registration procedures are not
scaled for this type of task.
 
Ther clear tendency now is towards automatic or semi-automatic resource
registration procedures (archie and veronica can serve as examples). The 
resource indexing and registration seem to become a new type of network
service which belongs more to network service providers rather than to
the NCC. 
 
The role of the NCC rather be to help to coordinate this new type 
of services and maybe registrate and disseminate pointer information 
about network resource registration services in Eurooe.
 
For the above reason I would like to withdraw my proposal for a
resource object in RIPE DB. RIPE should probably keep an eye on
recent evolutions in this field but probably shouldn't get directly
involved with the resource registration process itself.
 
Regards
Milan Sterba
 
 
P.S. Here are some references to documents which lead me to this 
decision :
 
Weider, Chris : Resource transponders, March 1993
(internet draft - draft-ietf-iiir-transponders-00.txt)
Berners-Lee, Tim : Uniform Resource Locators, July 1993
(internet draft - draft-ietf-uri-url-01.{txt,ps})
Weider, Chris, Deutsch, Peter : A Vision of an Integrated Internet 
Information Service (internet-draft - draft-ietf-iiir-vision-00.txt)
 


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