Re: [Bug-gne]External Servers and Illegal/Extreme Content

[Imran Ghory]

On 17 Feb 2001, at 9:55, Tom Chance wrote:

> > > It's the "knowingly" bit that worries me.
> > Presumably we know/have seen
> > > the content, that's why we're choosing the server
> > carefully,
> > 
> > No, you misunderstand what I'm suggesting, the GNEP
> > won't 
> > decide which material goes on which server, it'll
> > only decide which 
> > material it will accept.
> > 
> >  If an article is rejected by GNEP the author is
> > able to submit it to 
> > one of the alternative servers, which are willing to
> > carry 
> > controversial material.
> > 
> > That way at the worst only the server which accepts
> > it can be held 
> > responsible.
> 
> 
> That's a bit of an odd, and very messy way of doing
> it. It implies not only that GNE will be the central
> server and any mirrors or "contraversial" mirrors will
> be little offshoot projects. How, for starters, would
> you propose you link to all of this material?

Have the IDs @ server_name and have DNS style tables available.

Read the section entitled "An encyclopedia located everywhere" in the original 
RMS announcement.

> Expecting a new index for each server, 

No, the index will be part of a front end system. The encycopedia data would be 
a the back end.

>a new web site,
> or anything similar is ridiculous and will make
> navigating GNE as painfully laborious as the WWW.

The user won't see any of this, they'll just have a front end which they can 
access and the front end can search multiple servers and return data from 
across a range of servers.

> In your way GNE also still has responsibility for the
> article as much as if the server holding it was a GNE
> server, in my view anyway.

How ?, leaglly it will be a server run by person xxx who isn't affiliated with 
the 
FSF in any way except running software written by them.
(IANAL)

> We have to have a central
> submission form, that will then put references into a
> central index, 

That would mean that one body would still control the material which isn't 
consistent with the aims of the project.

>so that the resource remains coherent
> and without broken links and missing materials. 

If we have mirrors, we won't loose material.

>It
> will also then be much easier to mirror from server to
> server. 

Not really, once we've coded the system we can make it pretty much 
automated.

Imran