4.9. Recommendations arising from this Chapter

• The development of DIAL will be facilitiated if three forms of co-operation can be achieved:
  • If a number of parties who wish to create complementary indexes can agree to do so within a common framework (a `multi-threaded index') in which DIAL is one thread.
  • If some means of obtaining voluntary collaboration from experts in Internet indexing in particular subject areas, or for particular geographical areas, can be obtained.
  • If (although the primary language of the facility is English) collaboration can be obtained from sites of legal indexing expertise in at least major international legal languages such as Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and German.
• DIAL facilities should be developed so as to be accessible by users in DMCs who have low bandwidth Internet connections or only dial-up terminal mode connections, by ensuring that the pages can be accessed by non-graphical browser software (such as Lynx).
• An indication should be provided on sites indexed of whether they are `official' sites.