Internet Information Retrieval Infrastructure BOF (iiri)

Monday, March 1 at 1300-1500
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CHAIRS: Guo Yiping <gyp@hust.edu.cn>
        Andrew Newton <andy@hxr.us>


DESCRIPTION:
With the rapid increase of the web pages, the coverage of search engines 
will become poorer and the update interval will be much longer. If the 
current architecture of search engines is still in use, it will be an 
impossible mission to f! ind the precise and comprehensive information 
in the future. This problem will be more serious when IPV6 technology is 
widely implemented in communication networks. The problem of "Too much 
information means no information" may become a disaster with information 
explosion. To solve this problem, there should be an efficient information 
management system for Int ernet.

In this group, Domain Resource Integrated System--DRIS will be proposed. 
DRIS is a distributed information retrieval system, which will build the 
information retrieval infrastructure for the Internet and also can be 
regarded as a kind of Internet information management system.  DRIS is a 
hierarchical distributed search system and comprise three kinds of 
information retrieval system, conventional database system, distributed 
search system and metadata harvest system. We will first define the basic 
search system and then define the entire DRIS.

Specific work items are:

1 Standard distributed search system. I! t defines the platform-independent 
search interface and a collection description standard for heterogeneous 
information resources.  An I-D "information retrieval protocol for digital 
resources" has been proposed.

2 Standard metadata harvest system. A protocol based some available opening 
standard like OAI will be proposed. It will define a standard metadata that 
can be compatible with most database system.

3 Standard public web pages search system.

4 DRIS. It will define entire DRIS. It includes its whole architecture, the 
relation between different nodes, etc.

5 DRIS and IPV6. The cooperation with IPV6 WG will be proposed. IPV6 will 
be the most distinct feather of next generation Internet.IPV6 is still in 
improving and any technology that can benefit the Internet all can be added 
to the IPV6 system. Since the searching is the main service of most user of 
Internet and this service is not so satisfied to us in current Internet, why 
not take this request into account when ! build the new Internet. For example, 
in IPV6, all kinds of data flows are assigned a priority, and then Internet 
can guarantee a high priority to the data flow of DRIS. So there may need 
some considerations for the relation between DRIS and IPV6.


AGENDA:

Draft agenda for the BOF:
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History of IETF work in this area 15 min
Introduction to problem space and DRIS                               15 min
Internet Information retrieval infrastructure and digital library    15 min
draft-liang-irpdl-03.txt 15 min
IPv6 and information ! retrieval system 15 min
Discussion remaining time


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