Original-To: gopher-news@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Original-Cc: wg-isus@rare.nl, netf-usup@nic.nordu.net
Subject: Gopher registration for Europe
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 16:26:16 +0200
From: awg@sunet.se (Anders Gillner)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Distribution: comp

Hi all !

This is aimed mostly at European gopher administrators.
As you may have noticed, I will take over gopher registration for 
Europe. This will of course mean that there will be some 
restructuring, and change on the gopher server at sunic.sunet.se in 
the near future.Of course you don't HAVE to register, but you are 
encouraged to do so if you want people to find your info :-).
This is done as an information coordination only, technical 
questions are still answered by the team at University of Minnesota
or sent to the US-list.

The registration address will, as you may have seen, be:

	 gopher@ebone.net.

The reason for that is that the team at KTH, Stockholm, which I am a 
member of, act as an operation team for the current European IP 
backbone, Ebone.  

 I will try to administer three different structures:

	1. "Europe", which will be the counterpart of "All gophers 
	   in the world" at the Minnesota gopher. No subdivision.
	   This is in operation now, and the link data are:

Name=Europe
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/Other Gopher and Information Servers/Europe
Host=sunic.sunet.se


	2. 	"Infoservers in European Countries", which will be 
		divided into countries, and contain not only gophers,
		but also other info-servers as well as the old menu 
		"Descriptions of European Networks". This will need
		some restructuring from my side before it goes fully 
		into operation. Those of You who have links to the menu
		"Descriptions....",may want to change that link to
		"Infoservers...".
		The menu is there though, and the link data are:

Name=Infoservers in European Countries
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/Infoservers in European Countries
Host=sunic.sunet.se


	3. 	"Subject tree", with infoservers of all kinds, divided into 
		the different subjects they have specialized in. It would
		be nice to have your registration include which subject
		(subjects) that the datasets that are uniqe on your server
		covers. This is in operation now, and the link data are:

Name=Subject Tree
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/Subject Tree
Host=sunic.sunet.se

A new and more fitting name would be nice, but I just can't come
up with one, any suggestions ? "Servers divided into subjects" ?

This will probably not be ideal in any way, but it is the best 
structure I can think of at the moment, comments are welcome.

I have been in contact with a number of people in different
countries, and so far I have got prime contacts in Germany, UK,
Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Norway, who 
are willing to keep track of new gophers in their countries, and put 
them up in a menu of their gopher server. So if you run a gopher 
server in a European country that is not in the list above, and are
willing to be the prime contact for your country, please contact me. 
This is of course not official in any way, I am just trying to get an 
informal network of people running gophers, whom are willing to 
do a little extra work to get the information flowing. If you are such 
a person, you are also strongly encouraged to keep track of other 
information-systems as well, such as entrypoints for WAIS and WWW, 
library systems, and databases.

We also keep a ftp-mirror of the gopher-stuff at 
boombox.micro.umn.edu on this side of the Atlantic.
The host is sunic.sunet.se, the directory /pub/gopher.
Anonymous login.

I will set up a mailinglist, mainly for the prime contacts, but
others ARE welcome. I would prefer that each prime contact
could explode the list locally. Just to avoid huge data sets of
course. The list is called:

eurogopher@ebone.net

Which should be in operation when this message goes out. 

kind regards/awg