- From: Alan Kent <ajk@mds.rmit.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 10:44:06 +1100
- To: asn1xml@oss.com
- Cc: www-zig@w3.org
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 05:55:38AM -0500, Eliot Christian wrote: > I note with some frustration that some Z39.50 implementors are > working on a "Z39.50 Next Generation" that may employ XML/SOAP > without preserving a strict relationship to the ASN.1 spec. I am one of the people working on one of the ZiNG projects, SRW. (ZiNG is an umbrella under which multiple things are being tried.) But SRW has got a different goal that XER. The goal is to come up with a very small SOAP RPC. Z39.50 -> XSD will keep all of the complexities of the Z39.50 protocol. My *personal* goal is to have a gateway to go from SOAP with a simple subset of Z39.50 (to make it appealing to the masses) which converts back into the real Z39.50 protocol. So I don't consider them to be competing projects. We have been trying to sell Z39.50 in its current form to non-librarian customers since 1994. Its got wonderful semantic concepts, but the protocol is just too big and ugly. So the ZiNG experiments I think are interesting to see if the good core stuff of Z39.50 can be made more accessible to the general market. Alan
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