That brings up a pet idea I've been thinking about:
 
 Now that Eric has implemented a nice facility for global maintenance of
a  database (the  LISTS code),  how about  employing a  similar idea  to
create a  network-wide yellow pages/name server?  LISTSERV is efficient,
almost universally available and the database features that Eric already
has implemented  are far superior to  any of the name  servers I've ever
seen.
 
Hub  sites (perhaps  the sites  currently running  NETSERV) AND  THE NIC
could hold  the database and  LISTSERV already has  some idea of  how to
route requests to the most reasonable  server. Perhaps we could do it by
regions  and use  the LSVDELT  mechanism to  keep eachh  server informed
about who  has what  information. It's an  interesting idea,  that's for
sure.
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