- From: LeVan,Ralph <levan@oclc.org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 09:29:37 -0500
- To: www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
> From: Jim Davis [mailto:jdavis@parc.xerox.com] > I think it's also reasonable to consider, from the library > point of view, > whether LDAP might work as well as DASL. Do you have any > thoughts on that? I can't really believe you made that suggestion. The objections that the Web community has consistently expressed about Z39.50 are it's statefulness, binary encoding and transmission over raw tcp/ip. LDAP has all those deficiencies. In addition, it has a really weak searching mechanism. The other thing that surprises me is that you don't automatically think that z39.50 and DASL have a natural alignment. I just reread your requirements document. At the end of it are a list of related documents. 4 of the 5 documents listed are z39.50 documents. It's clear that we have many of the same requirements. You've also made many of the hard decisions that we did, including using a non-human-enterable query grammar. I still think there's a natural convergence opportunity for the two standards and will continue to investigate it. Ralph Ralph LeVan Research Scientist OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. http://www.oclc.org/~levan
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