> From: uri-request@w3.org [mailto:uri-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Mykyta Yevstifeyev > Sent: Friday, 31 December, 2010 00:17 > To: Ira McDonald > Cc: John Cowan; Charles Lindsey; URI > Currently, all of them (except afs, mailserver and tn3270) have > been specified or moved to Historic. ... So I think now it's time > to discuss if it should be moved to Historic either. > > Maybe (2) seems more acceptable for me. Has anyone seen the Andrew > File System wide-spread among the Internet? As I know, it was an > experimental effort of Carnegie Mellon University and I really do > not neither know any public-available resources hat can be > accessed by such a scheme nor clients for it. AFS is not just an experimental system, and not used just at CMU. It was used at a number of universities and businesses in production, and sold as a product by Transarc (now part of IBM). When I worked at IBM in the late '80s and early '90s we used it, for example. MIT's Project Athena ran a good-sized AFS cell. As far as I know it's still in use; MIT is still hosting pages about it.[1] OpenAFS [2] is available for several platforms, and is active. There were 35 messages on its announce list last year. Some casual searching suggests there are at least a few public AFS resources. I don't know whether there are any clients that support afs-scheme URLs. [1] See for example http://ist.mit.edu/services/web/afs/about. [2] http://openafs.org/ -- Michael Wojcik Principal Software Systems Developer, Micro Focus This message has been scanned for viruses by MailController - www.MailController.altohiway.comReceived on Monday, 3 January 2011 14:02:40 UTC
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