Date: Fri, 23 Sep 94 15:59:28 -0400
To: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
From: mitra@path.net (Mitra)
Subject: Re: Meta info tags
Message-Id: <9409231258.aa00710@pandora.sf.ca.us>
At 12:18 AM 9/23/94 -0500, Daniel W. Connolly wrote:
>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
>
>
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Mitra mitra@path.net
V.P.Engineering, Pandora Systems (415)488-0944