the files in this compressed tarball represent huge amounts of personal effort,
but we want them to be useful in the public domain.
so, please, if you have better information,
help us improve the accuracy of any of these mappings
<p>
<b>
(<a href=netinfo.tar.gz>netinfo.tar.gz</a>)</b>


<dl>
<dt> <b><font size=+1>as2asname</font></b>
<dd> AS numbers and their symbolic AS names (warning: out-of-date) 
<dt> <b><font size=+1>ip2place</font></b>
<dd> generally for addresses we couldn't find in DNS <i>inaddr.arpa</i>.
     since <b>ip2place</b> uses slash notation, it would be preferable
     to use the proper netmask instead of /32, but we're not in a good
     position to know the subnetting. 
	written recently, so still has only few bindings
<dt> <b><font size=+1>name2place</font></b>
<dd> all MBone tunnel endpoints that are in the DNS, 
	a few interfaces in the backbone, 
	the NLANR cache clients, and random other hosts. 
     if you belong to an geographically distributed domain we
	would appreciate submissions of domain-to-location mappings 
<dt> <b><font size=+1>place2latlong</font></b>
</dl>


<p>
possible work in the future: <p>
<ol><li> multicast protocol to dribble lat long files
across the mbone so everyone can easily and 
automatically share updates?  (requires trust model, still
pending.)
<li> distributed management or (gaaak) form-based
change submission interface
</ol>