Positioning Z39.50 from Matthew Dovey on 2000-11-21 (www-zig@w3.org from November 2000)

From: Matthew Dovey <matthew.dovey@las.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:36:05 -0000
To: "'Sebastian Hammer'" <quinn@indexdata.dk>, "'ajk@mds.rmit.edu.au'" <ajk@mds.rmit.edu.au>, www-zig@w3.org
Message-ID: <E2152F960582D211851400A0C9CDFDA59D08E5@zeus.olis.ox.ac.uk>

> As a client developer, I am not mostly 
> interested in getting 
> Explain-anything info via HTTP or LDAP - my clients are all 
> exceptionally 
> good at Z39.50 already. It works for me.

No, offence, Sebastian, but I think it is precisely that sort of
introspective attitude puts people off looking at Z39.50. Hence, the fact I
keep harping about positioning Z39.50 amongst the whole range of
client/server standards.

Matthew

Received on Tuesday, 21 November 2000 04:36:07 UTC