- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 14:11:44 -0400
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- cc: yarong@microsoft.com, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
In message <96Nov1.064643pst."2760"@golden.parc.xerox.com>, Larry Masinter writ es: >Danger! Here Be Dragons! > ># This group must define a fairly robust set of attributes. Else everyone ># will invent their own and it will take forever before things sort ># themselves out. > >Having been at the Dublin meeting that tried to define the Dublin core >and watched what's happened since, I think this would be a poor >choice: there's no reason to believe that _this_ group could converge >faster on an identical problem. PEP is designed to decentralize agreements about HTTP header semantics. It's possible we could define one or more HTTP extensions for our purposes, but avoid a central registry. I'd provide details, but I have to go right now. I'll try to say more next week. See: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/PEP/ Dan
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