Re: Tr: [ga] DNSO.org web site and robots.txt

[Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@mail.msen.com>]

	As M. Renaut points out, this is a matter best addressed to
Thomas, as GA chair.  (Don't you wish *other* parts of this organization
were served by staff who left decisions to the elected leadership?)  
FWIW, Thomas, I agree with Michael; allowing the DNSO pages to be indexed
on google would be a big help to folks seeking information.  At the
moment, there is no DNSO-only search tool, so the pages are not searchable
at all; allowing access via google would be both easy and useful.

Jon


On Tue, 21 May 2002, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:

> I would appreciate a change in the robots.txt file.  It is useful for
> researchers, especially students, who may not be that sophisticated, to
> have easy access to the material via common tools such as google.
> 
> Sophisticated researchers may know that they need to go to a DNSO-only
> search tool, but most people will not be aware of this, as the ordinary
> practice is increasingly to allow indexing.
> 
> Thus, I very strongly request you make this change in the interests of
> allowing better quality research on Internet domain name issues.  Thank
> you.
> 
> On Tue, 21 May 2002, Philippe Renaut wrote:
> 
> > I am very happy to see how a simple robots.txt file, a pretty old
> technology as some have pointed out, can produce some pretty insultive
> allusions by some presumably highly skilled technicians. > To consider
> things with a drop of intelligence, we can say that : > > the web site
> is lacking a search engine. This is a good point and the secretariat
> is always open to intelligent proposals. If this is a global ask
> (asked by the chair), we will do it. Remember we could develop
> hundreds of services but some people are paying for it and may be they
> want us to do the services they ask for and not what we secretariat
> staff are deciding is good for them. > > the robots.txt is pretty
> restrictive. This is to avoid putting ten thousands of pages of mails
> on google like tools. I personnaly think it is a much more wise
> approach to have a good index place for www.dnso.org, and then a
> fluent navigation inside the web site, more than to index every
> pages...Once again if there is a global ask to change this, it can be
> done. > > accusations saying we don't know how to handle mailing lists
> and how to have a web site up. I am sure the very wise person in
> charge of the accusation can tell us every minutes where the web site
> was down, but I am also sure it would not be very convincing for his
> cause. By the way the secretariat was an open call for proposal so why
> are you not here instead of us doing the job ? > > Regards, > >
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