Re: Bath Appendices proposed as Implementor Agreements

I want to explain (to avoid possible confusion
about what is being proposed) that the Maintenance
Agency is going to adopt a different definition of
"implementor agreement" (or more accurately, is
going to adopt *a* definition, as there really
never has been a clear definition).  

The existing implementor agreements (at
http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/agree/agree.html)
have been incorporated into the draft revision;
they will be removed and a new numbering system
started.

An implementor agreement will no longer be
something with vague status, roughly, that
implementors have agreed to implement it. Rather
it will be a specification, that a profile,
another implementor agreement, RFC, etc., can
point to. Thus a given IA might apply to one
profile and not another.

IAs will stilL undergo ZIG ratification, but zig
approval of an IA won't mean that the ZIG agrees
to implement it, but rather that it makes sense,
is worthwhile to list as an IA, isn't frivilous,
etc. (For example, there shouldn't be two
different implementor agreements that say
essentially the same thing but with different
wording.)


Lunau Carrol wrote:
> 
> There have been recent discussions with Bill Moen and Ray Denenberg about
> the Bath appendices B: Diagnostics and E: Creating a search from Scan
> results. As these appendices are being used by the Proposed US National
> Z39.50 Profile it has been proposed that they become Implementor Agreements
> and be maintained by the Maintenance Agency. This will be discussed at the
> April ZIG meeting. Ray has posted the documents at
> http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zig/meetings/oclc2002/ia1.html
> http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zig/meetings/oclc2002/ia2.html
> and on the agenda:
> http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zig/meetings/oclc2002/agenda.html
> 
> The draft of Bath version 2 still contains the two appendices but they will
> be removed and the appendices renumbered if they become Implementor
> Agreements at the meeting in April.
> 
> Carrol Lunau
> Bath Profile Maintenance Agency
> National Library of Canada
> Ottawa, ON Canada
> Tel: 613-996-3262        Fax: 613-947-2916
> email: carrol.lunau@nlc-bnc.ca

Received on Tuesday, 19 March 2002 15:26:35 UTC