- From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 17:46:18 -0400
- To: moore@cs.utk.edu, rsalz@osf.org
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, khare@w3.org
>Close, but not quite. A resolution service, not a directory service. > >(Where by "directory" I mean something that can do content-based >searching.) By directory, I mean attribute-based searching. That seems to be both the past (X.500), the would-be future (XFN), and the fad-of-the-moment (LDAP). >*much* easier to build and deploy than a searchable directory. But the latter is where the world is going. Someone could make a real name for themselves by publishing a list of OID's, representations, and semantics for web-page attributes. /r$
Received on Saturday, 19 October 1996 14:49:38 UTC