Paper #: 1.16 Title: Crawling towards Eternity: Building An Archive of The World Wide Web 1. Problems -This is an article about an attempt to archive the entire Internet, in the hopes that future generations will find the information useful. 2. New Idea and Strengths -The authors openly discuss the "proposed Standard for Robot Exclusion (SRE)", which would cause their system to exclude web sites that don't want to be indexed. The concept of long term storage of all available information is interesting. 3. Weaknesses and Extensions -This paper is old, and there are many topics not discussed in the project design. How often are pages checked for new content? If only one line changes, is the page archived again? Are pages simply archived regularly? Scalability could be an issue. -The lack of an indexing system I think is a big mistake- the future usefulness of the system is extremely limited if the only method of searching is by URL. The entire catalog will have to be re-indexed if any meaningful searching is to be done. -The legal issues of creating copies without consent are barely mentioned, and I think they deserve a little more discussion. Google is running into issues with merely caching past copies, but this project is solely about complete copies- copyright issues are a very big deal.