Mirror Site Requirements...

[Joao Carlos Mendes Luis]

Somebody told me that Daniel C. Sobral said:
> jason andrade wrote:
> >it is *much* better for mirrors to maintain a base level of consistency as
> >our research into mirror use here has shown that users are more likely to
> >use mirrors when they have stability in the process.  any loss of stability
> >almost certainly leads to the majority defaulting back to their perceived
> >master site: ftp.freebsd.org and it takes a while for them to switch back
> >again (e.g build trust in the process again).

  Very good point!  And considering the stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Haverage
user, the "nearest server" routine would be handy, altough I confess I
do not have a perfect idea of how to implement this.  It must not be
only a matter of RTT, but also of bandwidth and maybe link costs.

> >so to address the point - if rules come about they are being developed in
> >consultation with the community and should be consistently applied to all
> >mirrors.
> 
> OTOH, we'd better do a consultation to find out how many mirrors won't 
> be able to keep up with the standards we set upon, because if lose too 
> many mirrors, maybe it's better to rethink the standards.

    Risking to loose my mirror status, I have to agree here...

    BTW: Could we devise some means to REQUIRE subscription of mirror
managers to some list, and remove mirrors who do not answer after some
time?

					Jonny

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João Carlos Mendes Luís			jonny at jonny.eng.br
  Networking Engineer			jonny at coe.ufrj.br