- From: Jon Knight <J.P.Knight@lboro.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:52:49 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Sebastian Hammer <quinn@indexdata.dk>
- cc: www-zig@w3.org
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Sebastian Hammer wrote: > And then the big question: Well, why don't we *make* them point > at eachother. Thus was born the "Friends & Neighbours service", which would > allow any Z39.50 server, on request, to return a list of other targets > relevant to it, sympathetic to it, or just plain known to it. > Theoretically, at least, it would not be necessary to provide anything > other than host/port coordinates for your friends and neighbours, because > they would be able to provide their own, up-to-date metadata about > themselves using Explain (or whatever). A bit like centroids and query routing did for WHOIS++ back in the dim distant past... ;-) In fact could Z39.50 servers not make use of the existing work based on that technology? Saves reinventing the wheel and might even allow interoperability. Tatty bye, Jim'll
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