Comment on 6bone map

[Bob Fink]

Chongeun ,

At 3:26 PM -0700 10/7/97, Chongeun Lee wrote:
>Bob,
>
>Following your input, I looked at
>
>       http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/ipv6/6Bone/Maps/
>
>and
>
>       http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/ftp-archive/6Bone/Maps/6Bone.gif
>
>I can see how it would be more efficient to have machine generated
>maps/diagrams as more and more sites are being added to 6bone and frequent
>changes/updates are being made on the 6bone structure and 6bone database.
>
>But when you are talking about moving to this new automated map, were you also
>planning on changing the design of these maps?   From the user's perspective,
>I felt quite dizzy trying to decipher what was written around the circle edge.
> Some words looked overlapped with other letters.  And even if I could read
>all of them, it looked too messy for me to do any planning for my testing.
>
>At the moment, I just wish to be able to see all the pTLA's, NLA's etc. along
>with the leaf sites in a clearly legible, well-organized format, plus each
>site's information in the 6bone database.  The current 6bone map has served me
>very well so far.

These are important points and ones I want to address before I settle on
this technique as the only map generation method.

Thanks for your comments...and stay tuned as Andrew and I work on this.


Thanks,

Bob