Re: [Dienst, A Protocol for a Distributed Digital Document Library]

Michael Mealling (ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu)
Thu, 11 Aug 1994 10:24:38 -0400 (EDT)

From: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)
Message-Id: <199408111424.AA11704@oit.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: [Dienst, A Protocol for a Distributed Digital Document Library]
To: masinter@parc.xerox.com (Larry Masinter)
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 10:24:38 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <94Aug10.221835pdt.2760@golden.parc.xerox.com> from "Larry Masinter" at Aug 10, 94 10:18:33 pm

Larry Masinter said this:
> I recommend this as an example of 'systems that might use URCs', and
> part of the development of a clearer understanding of when and why we
> might want to have URCs.
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> From: Carl Lagoze <lagoze@cs.cornell.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> Subject: Dienst, A Protocol for a Distributed Digital Document Library
>
> Jim Davis and I recently submitted an Internet Draft describing Dienst, a
> protocol for communication with distributed digital library servers.
> This protocol is embedded within HTTP.

This is just an of the cuff question. I havn't looked at the paper at all so
I may be way off base here:

How many people see WWW as the architecture with everything fitting into
that model or the other way around with WWW as a component inside
some larger architecture?

I don't want to leave the impression that either view point is better than
the other. Both are valid and can be argued very convincingly. I just
wonder if some of us are working under the assumption that everyone
else sees it the same way. I've been working under the assumption that
the former was what everyone wanted. I may be wrong.

-MM

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