The Soft Pages Project

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With the growing of Internet and its community,electronic publishing has become a frequently used way of announcing research results,standards, and the like.Most of these documents are kept in files on various file servers,mainly available by anonymous ftp or FTAM.In fact,anonymous ftp is one of the most popular applications of the Internet.Existing file information tools(like WAIS,WWW,Archie)have concentrated on finding the documents/files for given search criteria.By the means of these tools users are enabled to find the piece of information they have been looking for and a way to retrieve these documents.However,the problem of finding and retrieving a document is solved only from the users point of view.For network managers it is relevant where users get their files from.FTP causes 30to 50%of backbone traffic.This trunk route traffic(using rare bandwidth in most cases)can be reduced without limiting the service for users.The idea is to make more use of copies of documents held at file servers near the user and thus shifting ftp traffic to local and less-crowded national networks.Usually,a network user will not know all alternative sites for file transfer and go straight to a well known server to get the files he wants.To change this behaviour the user must be provided with additional information which is best done by giving him a powerful new file access tool.
一般社団法人情報処理学会の論文
1992-09-28