Justin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cdindex nospam at freeamp.org [mailto:owner-cdindex nospam at freeamp.org]On
> Behalf Of Ian Clarke
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 11:04 AM
> To: cdindex nospam at freeamp.org
> Subject: Re: Distributed Data
>
>
> > I think that one of the most important things in any cddb replacement
> > project will be to eliminate the single points in the data stream. (For
> > example, submitting the data to only one server.) This way a
> single party
> > can't decide to take the data and go home.
>
> Copyright and GPL could be used to prevent this. Perhaps we could set
> up a charity to run a central root server - unless we are prepaired to
> adopt some weird decentralised system <PLUG>such as I am developing for
> my 4th year project</PLUG> we need a central server.
>
> > If I had to propose a plan, I'd suggest some sort of newsgroupish
> > environment in which new cd submissions would be posted to. This would
> > allow for anyone who wishes to to go in and retrieve the information and
> > add it to a private database. (Ie, a post to the cdinfo group would be
> > read by both private collectors and global repositories, and would allow
> > them to update their repositiories.) If a repository decides to go AWOL,
> > one can simply use one of the others.
>
> Would USENET be able to handle a (hopefully) massive influx of
> submissions?
>
> Ian.
>
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