ZNG: "Z39.50 Next Generation"

During and since the December ZIG meeting a group of Z39.50 implementors has
been informally discussing ways to evolve Z39.50 to a more mainstream protocol,
using web technologies: XML, URI, SOAP (RPC), and HTTP.  The group has developed
specifications for a new web service called ZNG, "Z39.50 Next Generation".
(Earlier, it had been known as ZML: "Z39.50 over XML".)

This is a proof-of-concept initiative to develop a standard search and retrieve
service lowering the barriers to implementation while preserving the existing
intellectual contributions of Z39.50 that have accumulated over nearly 20 years,
discarding those aspects no longer useful or meaningful.

see http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zng.html for a more detailed description.

--Ray

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Ray Denenberg
Library of Congress
rden@loc.gov
202-707-5795

Received on Thursday, 12 July 2001 16:20:09 UTC