[tei-council] new look TEI web site

[James Cummings]

Julia Flanders wrote:
> I've searched the TEI-L list archives, and there are quite a lot of 
> postings which assume that the UK site is an official mirror:
> 
> --people are directed, without comment, to files that are available on it

Thanks for the answers, you are right then, to users it must appear as a 
mirror site, whatever its actual function.  I'm of the opinion that if 
it is a mirror then all files should exist at both locations, and people 
should always be directed to the .org version.  (If one day Virginia 
want to do load balancing and direct people from Europe automatically to 
the UK version, then that might justify the existence of the UK 
version.)  But, is there really the need for a UK mirror?  I don't 
recall ever having a problem getting to the Virginia site or it being 
slow.  What is the point of it otherwise?  Perhaps we should create
http://dev.tei-c.org/ as a development site (hosted where-ever, perhaps
on the current www.tei-c.org.uk).

-James
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Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk