There is an ongoing outage on the primary CPAN mirror. It is possible to work around the issue by using MetaCPAN as a mirror.

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revision 0.1	locked by: corliss;
date: 2000/02/12 11:53:32;  author: corliss;  state: Exp;
--Initial checkin.  Working proof-of-concept, but not functionally
  complete.
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