Message-Id: <9409230518.AA19676@austin2.hal.com>
To: mitra@path.net (Mitra)
Subject: Re: Meta info tags
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Sep 1994 22:29:34 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 00:18:13 -0500
From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
In message <9409221929.aa22037@pandora.sf.ca.us>, Mitra writes:
>Larry says .....
>
>> but the application scenarios of URCs are missing; there
>>are not even any pointers or references.
>
>Larry - I think the application scenarios are all over the place, anywhere
>we have meta-information being passed around, for example Gopher+, HTTP
>"Head" or Prospero. What we dont have is a common way to pass meta info
>between these protocols.
Protocols are not applications. Protocols enable services on which
applications are built.
I think that if this working group had 5 or 10 specific scenarios
that illustrate the problems we're trying to solve, it would help
focus the discussions.
I'll start with this example...
Bob has a citation for a paper, giving author, title,
and date of publication. He knows it's available on
the internet somewhere, but he doesn't know where.
Certainly this information is enough to locate the
paper (perhaps a few keywords like "high energy physics"
would help seed the search...). Given sufficient compute
resources and connectivity, he should be able to
find the paper in an automated fashion.
Dan