Dear Mr James,

Many thanks for your comments about our proposed online journal
project. I, too, would prefer to use the IP addresses of users as the
means of regulating the system. The only problem for us is getting hold of
IP addresses of valid users. The best way for this to happen is for the
librarian to consolidate these and forward them to us at the time of
subscription. However, would librarians be prepared to do this?

I am told by our IT experts that the level of security afforded by the
domain level of the IP address is not sufficient due to the existence of
proxy servers etc. In addition, there will inevitably be researchers at a
given site who do not share the same domain name as the library and
this too may cause difficulties.

Perhaps a simple solution is for the librarian to supply us with the names
and addresses and e-mail addresses of users that they deem suitable,
and then we contact the users directly with passwords.

Do you think that this could work?

Best Regards

Phil Mestecky
Market Development Manager
Elsevier Science Ltd
p.mestecky@elsevier.co.uk