# what the problemis

Murray Bent (murrayb@icis.qut.edu.au)
Fri, 23 Sep 1994 04:14:49 --1000

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    Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 04:14:49 --1000

    From: murrayb@icis.qut.edu.au (Murray Bent)

    Message-Id: <9409221814.AA14138@wittgenstein.icis.qut.edu.au >

    To: uri@mocha.bunyip.com

    Subject: what the problemis

So many solutions, but here's the problem:
which technology is going to be the best solution please??

I want to be able to look up a service and give it the
name of a person, the name of a resource or the name of
an application and the service will return metadata on
the unique name , to allow further negotiation on what
to do next
eg get the best deal, negotiate a common format, etc.

related services appear to be whois++ and the handler service
at cnri.reston.va.us, among others ( please let me know others)

Also, what about SGML format for the URC metadata ? Some form of
structured yet human-readable document is needed - and SGML
can handle more structure than can a RFC1357-type table.

Cheers,
Murray Bent
QUT

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