From: Martin Hamilton <M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <199310281715.RAA12787@lust.lut.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: options, not nesting?
To: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 17:15:52 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <199310281626.AA22468@oit.oit.gatech.edu> from "Michael Mealling" at Oct 28, 93 12:26:02 pm
/ > I think this means the whole URM, URC, ... shebang is rendered
/ > unnecessary, but am willing to be convinced otherwise!
/
/ In my paper I call that template a URTemplate. I added URMs as an allowed
/ data element in the Template because that allows you to send around
/ your meta-information and other stuff with the URNs and URLs.
Woah! Hold on Michael!! What I'm saying is that the IAFA (say)
template can _already_ associate URLs and URNs with metadata by virtue
of the URI attribute, so why complicate matters further by introducing
a whole host of other UR*s? This is surely more than enough to
keep everyone busy for the next few months ?!? :-))
To give you a concrete example, the WAIS I-D might look something
like this...
Template-Type: document
Category: Informational RFC
Title: WAIS over Z39.50-1988
Author-Name: M. St. Pierre, J. Fullton, K. Gamiel, J. Goldman, B. Kahle,
J. A. Kunze, H. Morris, F. Schiettecatte
Version: 00
Pages: 5
Description:
The purpose of this memo is to initiate a discussion for a migration
path of the WAIS technology from Z39.50-1988 (Information Retrieval
Service Definitions and Protocol Specification for Library Applications)
to Z39.50-1992 and then to Z39.50-1994. The purpose of this memo is
not to provide a detailed implementation specification, but rather to
describe the high-level design goals and functional assumptions made
in the WAIS implementation of Z39.50-1988. WAIS use of Z39.50-1992
and Z39.50-1994 standards will be the subject of future RFCs.
Publication-Status: Internet Draft (IIIR Working Group)
Publisher-Organization-Name: IETF
Creation-Date: November 1993
Keywords: WAIS protocol Z39.50
Format: text
Size: 13475
Language: En.US
Character-Set: 8859/1
URI: URN:ASCII:IANA:internet-drafts:draft-ietf-iiir-wais
URI: URL:ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-iiir-wais-00.txt
URI: URL:ftp://munnari.oz.au/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-iiir-wais-00.txt
URI: URL:ftp://nic.nordu.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-iiir-wais-00.txt
Is this unpalatable to anyone? If so, could you explain why??
Cheers!
Martin