At 11:55 AM 9/11/98 -0700, Martin Minow wrote:
From Jim Burns: Is there any effort underway to mirror the report to various archives? This is going to kill the DC internet corridor otherwise.
What I heard on the radio this morning was that the house will press CD's that will be distributed to mirror servers (presumably the major Internet news providers.)
Sigh. These folks don't understand the web technology (though I suppose sneakernetting CDs to Washington press corps may actually be the fastest way for some things, but the press corps and the press companies' webmasters aren't the same folks.) It'd be simpler for them to distribute the report, and similar high-popularity information in the future, using electronic distribution to the various press agencies and other high-volume web sites, as long as they coordinate it well. It might also make sense for them to have a "press-only" subnet for insiders and major caching proxy servers to get distributions from.
Now, the real interesting question: will the files be PGP-signed?
What? And make it hard to change them later? :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639