- From: Alex Hopmann (Exchange) <alexhop@exchange.microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:49:28 -0800
- To: "'www-webdav-dasl@w3.org'" <www-webdav-dasl@w3.org>
- Cc: "'echristi@usgs.gov'" <echristi@usgs.gov>, "'warnock@home.com'" <warnock@home.com>
Today several of us met to discuss alignment between the GILS and DASL specifications. Global Information Locator Service (GILS) info: http://www.gils.net/ DASL info: http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/dasl/ Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC): http://www.fgdc.gov/clearinghouse/clearinghouse.html Attending were: Alex Hopmann, DASL WG Chair Jim Davis, DASL author Eliot Christian, Chief GILS Architect Archie Warnock, FGDC Clearinghouse and ASF Implementation At the meeting, we all agreed that there is enough synergy between the two specifications that it should be possible to align them. Archie is rewriting the existing web -> Z39.50 gateway, and will attempt to support receiving DASL requests. If this experiment is successful it should make available thousands of databases and literally terabytes of information to DASL clients. After a day and a half of intensively working through the design, we did not come up with any changes we would have to make to DASL. We are actually really happy about this as a test of our design so far for DASL. It's possible that as the experiment progresses we might find things we want to improve in DASL, and these will be offered as suggestions on the DASL mailing list. Participation in this experiment from other folks is strongly encouraged- Please just post to this list (www-webdav-dasl@w3.org) if you want to get involved. Alex Hopmann, Jim Davis, Eliot Christian, Archie Warnock
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