> I wasn't at the meeting either, but that's never stopped any of us from > commenting before:-) How about well-known database(s) that serve xml > metadata (RDF?) about known servers, profiles, etc? IMHO, we need to > stop forcing so much into the core protocol and use the transport > mechanisms we have in place for higher order purposes. This is a good > example of that. And we have a well-known database and search for this: EXPLAIN searched for "databaseInfo" -- and I believe Denis long ago (at TRW) proposed having databases listed that were not at the server. Yes these records come back in BER/ASN.1 -- but making a server accept a request for the records in recordSyntax=xml (heh, or GRS) is certainly a reasonable concept. bob -- Robert K. Waldstein Email: wald@lucent.com Bell Laboratories, Room 3D-591 Phone: (908) 582-6171 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974Received on Wednesday, 21 June 2000 14:17:07 GMT
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