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Bill asked whether the group had ruled out consideration of the Handle System at a previous meeting; while we have been moving to think of the resolution service without a set of richer accompanying metadata and services, the Handle service has worked well for eCommons and LSDI.
Bill has wanted to host a mirror of the local Handle server and Mann would be a logical place to do so. He will talk to Chris Manly from DLIT to see when it might be possible for Chris to work with Bill Klinko and John Cline at Mann to do a second installation for redundant resolution of Cornell handles.
A simple Handle record (vanilla configuration, no extra metadata) uses around 100 bytes. Our current Handle server contains 43 thousand Handles. To evaluate the Handle System further it would be helpful to know the memory footprint of a Handle record (Bill?) and to create a test suite to load ~1 million records and conduct load tests on resolution performance.
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