Dear list mambers,
like, I suppose, all of you, I ardently hope that Werner's Archive can
survive. Here is my consideration on the matter.
1) I think that the best solution would be to keep the arkive where now it
is, if this is possible, of course. Has anyone talked with some of the GMD
administrators about the possibility of to let to menage the arkive from
outside the GMD institute, by one or more of us that can and want do that?
In this case there will be the advantage of to retain the internet address.
2) Yahoo and other commercial site, even if free, can remove the page
winthout any notice, put some banner in the page and, over all, they are
commercial, and so their philosophy is very far from the philosophy that
has given life to the GMD archive. For those reasons I prefer the non
commercial (preferably academic) solution.
3) I think that could be useful the existence of mirror sites. In this case
the GMD original site might be a mirror site and retain the important
reputation that it has all over the world.
4) Whatever will be the choise, I propose to change the name of the archive
in 'Werner Icking Archive'.
Luigi Cataldi
