# Re: Uniform Resource Agents -- a draft proposal

Pierre Desjardins (desjars@bowzer.citi.doc.ca)
Wed, 22 Mar 95 12:24:31 -0500

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    To: Leslie Daigle <leslie@beethoven.bunyip.com>

    Subject: Re: Uniform Resource Agents -- a draft proposal

    In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Mar 95 14:43:17 EST."

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    Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 12:24:31 -0500

    From: "Pierre Desjardins" <desjars@bowzer.citi.doc.ca>

Leslie,

I do not know if you are familiar or not with the work of Prof. Gio Wiederhold
from Stanford -- he has coined (I believe) the notion of "mediator" as a
software module that exploits encoded knowledge about some sets or subsets of
data to create information for a higher layer of applications. He has written
a paper (*) wherein he positions mediators in the context of an architecture
for future information systems. While reading your draft proposal on URAs, it
did appear to me that some aspects might have sufficient commonality in terms
of abstract functionality for you to benefit from his work (or maybe the other
way around for that matter...).

Cheers!

-- Pierre

(*) "Mediators in the Architecture of Future Information Systems", 36 pages
< http://db.stanford.edu/pub/gio/1992/afis.ps >

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