Knowbot Information Service
<networking, information science> (KIS) Also known as netaddress. The
Knowbot Information Service (KIS) provides a uniform user interface to a variety
of remote directory services such as whois, finger, X.500, MCIMail. By
submitting a single query to KIS, a user can search a set of remote white pages
services and see the results of the search in a uniform format.
There are several interfaces to the KIS service including electronic mail and
telnet. Another KIS interface imitates the Berkeley whois command.
KIS consists of two distinct types of modules which interact with each other
(typically across a network) to provide the service. One module is a user agent
module that runs on the KIS mail host machine. The second module is a remote
server module (possibly on a different machine) that interrogates various
database services across the network and provides the results to the user agent
module in a uniform fashion. Interactions between the two modules can be via
messages between Knowbots or by actual movement of Knowbots.
There are electronic mail interfaces for KIS at the hosts cnri.reston.va.us and
sol.bucknell.edu. Send a message containing just the word "man" to
<kis@cnri.reston.va.us> or
<netaddress@sol.bucknell.edu>. Telnet: info.cnri.reston.va.us port 185.
Nearby terms:
KNI « Knights of the Lambda-Calculus « knowbot «
Knowbot Information Service » knowledge »
Knowledge Analysis and Design System » knowledge
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