- From: Joe Futrelle <futrelle@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:59:55 -0500
- To: "LeVan,Ralph" <levan@oclc.org>
- Cc: ZIG <www-zig@w3.org>
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:40:56AM -0400, LeVan,Ralph wrote: > > A much more conservative approach to "modernizing" Z39.50 is to encode > > protocol messages in XER and transport them over HTTP, say in SOAP. > > We weren't looking for conservative. We were looking to make it easy for > non-Z39.50 implementors to use our databases. I have developers here at > OCLC that are desperate for something much lighter than embedded Z39.50 > clients to fetch records out of databases. Oh, I very much agree with ZNG's direction b/c my experience with implementing Z39.50 is that it's a royal pain. However the ZNG example you give looks very much like OAI. I'd like to see the ZNG effort contrasted with OAI, so that there's as little duplication of effort as possible between the two efforts, and I'd also like to see the ZNG designed so that it can easily serve an interface to OAI harvesters. That, in my opinion, would be a big win for the community and for interoperability in general. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joe Futrelle | "Anita isn't experimental." -- Polly Technical Lead | Vietnam Emerge / SDT / DMV / NCSA | http://emerge.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ |
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