Re: reading...?

[Michael Mealling <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:49:22PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
> --On Thursday, 06 December, 2001 06:05 +0000
> [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> >> But, unless we can find terminology that really fits, I think
> >> it might be better to force people to read documents and
> >> definitions rather than looking at a word and guessing at the
> >> mechanisms.
> 
> > Perhaps I am oversteping here but I find the current
> > discussion less "green-field" than it might look at first
> > glance.
> > 
> > Some documents that might be germaine:
> > 
> > 	SNS - Dagile & Melling
> 
> Part of the process, very actively so.
> 
> > 	Handle - Sun
> > 	RC/BLOB - Moore
> 
> I'm unconvinced that either of these are relevant (at least if
> "Handle" refers to what I think it does), but would be happy to
> hear from one of the relevant authors to the contrary -- in
> detail.

Being the co-chair of the group in which Keith's RC/Blob stuff
is being persued, I can say pretty authoritatively that what
RESCAP is doing is really orthogonal to what this list is about.

You could use RESCAP to find out additional metadata details about a
URI that an SLS service would return but that is really just a feature
of how you can use RESCAP to find the capabilities of a given URI, not
a feature/requirement of a Layer X service...

-MM

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