WHOIS++ Directory Service Testbed

Information

• NSF Award
• 9521074

Owner

• MCNC, A NON-PROFIT NC CORP

• Award Id

  9521074

• Award Effective Date

  8/15/1995 - 28 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  7/31/1997 - 26 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 490,635.00

• Award Instrument

  Standard Grant

9521074 Brett A Directory Services testbed based on the WHOIS++ protocol, is proposeed for locating people and resources on the Internet. WHOIS++ provides a highly flexible client/server environment that allows a user to search across multiple distributed databases located on multiple servers, without prior knowledge of the architecture of the database or the network location of the desired information. This project proposes to deploy a medium-scale (>450,000 entries) WHOIS++ database distributed across at least 13 servers (which contain the actual directory data base entries), and utilizing at least six centroids (data bases of indexes which point to the individual servers) in a three-level mesh (centroids which point to lower-level centroids which, in turn, point to the lowest level of centroids which point to the actual data base servers). In addition, this project proposes to develop a widely-usable access method based on clients for the World Wide Web (e.g., Netscape or Mosaic), create interface modules to allow the use of a number of different database technologies to store the WHOIS++ data, determine and implement the security and privacy issues likely to be required for use in the commercial sector, and determine whether the protocol will scale to serve the Internet at large.

• Program Officer

  Steven N. Goldstein

• Min Amd Letter Date

  8/7/1995 - 28 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  8/1/1996 - 27 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  MCNC

• City

  RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK

• State

  NC

• Country

  United States

• Address

  3021 CORNWALLIS RD

• Postal Code

  277092889

• Phone Number

  9192481800

• First Name

  George

• Last Name

  Brett

• Email Address

  ghb@internet2.edu

• Start Date

  8/7/1995 12:00:00 AM

• End Date

  08/01/1996

• First Name

  Chris

• Last Name

  Weider

• Email Address

  George.Brett@CNIDR.org

• Start Date

  8/7/1995 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Jim

• Last Name

  Fullton

• Start Date

  8/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

• Name

  Telecommunications

• Code

  206000

• Name

  Computer Science & Engineering

• Code

  31

• Text

  ADVANCED NET INFRA & RSCH

• Code

  4090

• Text

  NATNL RESERCH & EDUCAT NETWORK

• Code

  9217

• Text

  HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING & COMM