At 09:50 08.11.99 -0500, John Border wrote:
> I am wondering if the draft encountered was the PILC PEP draft since that
>draft has some "naked" URLs in it. (It is not clear because the PILC PEP
>draft
>URLs do not references documents and I am not sure of the original context of
>this comment.)
>
> The PILC PEP draft references are naked because there is no specific
>document to reference so there is no author, title, date, etc. Basically,
>they are related to the implementation examples section of the draft and cite
>product examples, pointing to company web site for details on the products.
One example from draft-ietf-pilc-pep-00.txt:
[SPACENET] http://www.spacenet.com/
Referring text:
There is no one dominant PEP implementation used with VSAT networks.
Each VSAT network vendor tends to implement their own version of PEP,
integrated with the other features of their VSAT product. [HNS] and
[SPACENET] describe VSAT products with integrated PEP capabilities.
This is obviously insufficient to track down the information 3 years later,
given the frequency of buyouts, mergers, splits and renamings that plague
this industry.
A little more complete reference could have been
[SPACENET] Spacenet Inc, VSAT technology vendor based in Virginia, US,
owned (1999) by Gilat Technologies, Israel. Website at
http://www.spacenet.com/
This gives you enough keywords that Alta Vista and friends can probably
rescue you from the loss of the main URL.
Which I think is what the community is looking for.
Harald A
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Maxware, Norway
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
