- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 23:18:52 PDT
- To: jul@oclc.org
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
> A useful, limited, and measurable task for the WG to charter may be to > identify and list existing standards for recording or encoding metadata, > their respective standards bodies, the audiences they serve, the systems > that support them, and other data as deemed useful and appropriate. This would be an 'informational' document, and I can see no advantage to doing this within a working group of the IETF or in it becoming an RFC. > Producing such a cogent document will lay a needed, solid foundation. So it would, but so would writing a good book on principles of distributed systems. > I propose this as a task for the URI WG to be expressed in the charter. I don't see any handy volunteers, either. > I would think this could be substantially accomplished within four months. However, unless it went far enough to tell how to map those standards into Internet information, it wouldn't be useful as a RFC. If you were to volunteer to do this, would you actually be done in four months?
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