Inter-robot Comms Port

David Eagles (eaglesd@planets.com.au)
Sat, 23 Dec 1995 21:54:20 +-1100

Has anyone thought about applying for a TCP port number dedicated for =
intercommunications between various robots, as well as the additional =
protocol for exchange of info. As many of you will have seen, and some =
I have spoken to, I have developed a web crawler =
(http://funnelweb.net.au) which performs searchs/indexing for the South =
Pacific countries (based in Australia), selectable by individual =
country. I have received a lot of queries in regard to others using the =
code for various projects in other countries (and even internal =
corporate networks). As a result, I'm currently implementing a =
distributed searching/indexing facility. The best approach I can think =
of is to have a dedicated port which can be used by remote agents to =
either conduct searchs of another country's data or to register a URL =
for processing and indexing by that agent for the remote database (hope =
that makes sense).

Any comments on this would be GREATLY appreciated.

Regards,
David Eagles
PlaNET Consulting Pty Limited
Brisbane Australia