I disagree with Chris Trimble's proposal for a centralized World Wide Web. The beauty of browsing the World Wide Web with a viewer like NCSA Mosaic is that information may be stored in any popular format, and may come to your machine from anywhere on the global Internet -- both transparent to the user. Considering the current exponential growth rate of the WWW, and the variety of traditional Net protocols so easily accessible, the lack of a master index is hardly cause for complaints. If we want to use the library analogy, just think of the Web as a library with an incomplete card catalog.
Alan Braverman