Barbarian at the Gates

Thomas Boutell (boutell@netcom.com)
Tue, 26 Apr 1994 13:55:10 -0700

Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 13:55:10 -0700
From: boutell@netcom.com (Thomas Boutell)
Message-Id: <199404262055.NAA07039@netcom.com>
To: uri@bunyip.com
Subject: Barbarian at the Gates

[Knock, knock]

Just interrupting the colloquy to ask a naive practical question.

The need for automatic mirroring of sites in a manner that is
transparent to the end-user (ie, links that find the most local
version of a requested page) is already very much with us.
I am thinking of the often-inaccessible NCSA home pages in
particular.

Can someone describe how close we are to a practical system which
would solve this problem, once implemented by clients and
servers, and where I might read more on this point?

-T