- From: Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 00:21:54 -0500 (EST)
- To: fisher@sgi.com
- Cc: www-webdav-dasl@w3.org, fisher@hollywood.engr.sgi.com, babich@filenet.com
William Fisher said this: > Others mentioned the Z39.50 protocol and the huge library base > which utilizes that protocol. > > <snip> > > So my question is: Are you willing to consider extending this > protocol to cover legacy full-text searching? Z39.50 has spent the majority of this decade getting "legacy full-text searching" right. IMHO, DASL's scope is doable as its stands. Adding the scope that Z39.50 and "legacy full-text searching" have would make it impossible to complete in any of the time frames of the implementors. Please, if we need full text searching algorithms lets use what we have. If Z39.50 is deficient in some way lets fix that. Not burden DASL, DAV and, by extension, HTTP with all of the headaches that Z39.50 has already sovled... Now, with that said, a profile of DASL for dealing with a Z39.50 database in a degenerative but standardized way might be something worth doing... Sorry to be blunt, but I've seen Z39.50 in action. It solves all of the right problems. The end result is that its a very hard protocol to implement in its entirety. But it solves the problems. You pick hard problems you have to live with hard solutions. Just my opinion.... -MM -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mealling | Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.net/michael Sr. Research Engineer | www.ga.lp.org/gwinnett | ICQ#: 14198821 Network Solutions | www.lp.org | michaelm@netsol.com
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