Hi Folks, We have enhanced the main information Web page: http://www.xfront.com/dist-reg/distributed-registry.html Based upon excellent input from Tim Bray we...
Roger L. Costello
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Jan 3, 2003 10:03 pm
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Roger, I have been looking at the concept of Web Services Inspection Language or WSIL (http://www- ...
Just a question about goals and federation. I'm writing about registry design patterns and I would like to know how to cover this (and include federation...
Hi Richard, Consider this a newbie understanding of this project. I defer to Roger and others for correction. This project seems to be similar to WSIL in that...
... After we announced, the feedback we got made it clear that our choice of using the word registry was a mistake. When reading the word "registry" most...
... <dbj@y...>" <dbj@y...> wrote: Ok - Got it. ... does ... aggregation ... for ... - Defining and creating metadata that can be processed is a lot of work. I...
... Agreed, that is why we did not tackle it as part of our proposal. We wanted to provide a publishing framework for those who are exploring this problem....
The press release is here: http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_01_08_03.shtml Like all such, it has to be read between the lines, but it appears to me...
While probably few would argue with their goals, the devil, as they say, is in the details. Anyone familiar with the amount of contentiousness that has...
Okay, I'll bite: let's talk about fast vs. slow, in the context of the entire standards-making process as it is practiced today. ...or not, if that would be a...
[Sorry about this long message, but I wanted to get down my thoughts on this subject.] After much consideration and discussion on rest-discuss and most ...
Thanks Jeff. I haven't had the time to monitor the w3-tag discussions on this. Can you summarize where those discussions now stand? Have people there come to...
Roger L. Costello
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Feb 13, 2003 9:46 pm
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Well the entire www-tag discussion started based on a message from Tim Berners-Lee concerning site-level metadata. [1] To the (understandable) annoyance of the...
From: "Jeffrey Winter" <JeffreyWinter@...> ... I think you are right here. The more I view the problem, the more I feel that this is the only way to get...
Seairth Jacobs wrote, ... This isn't quite what I was arguing for on www-tag ... but it's another good suggestion. The gist of my original proposal was that...
Hmmm. I would think that if you had various forms of metadata available for a single resource that it would be better to place them all under a single ...
Hi Seairth, An interesting idea! Let's explore this a bit... Let's take an example: suppose that Parts Depot, Inc provides a Web service to enable clients to...
Roger L. Costello
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Feb 14, 2003 10:28 pm
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Here are a couple of thoughts that come to mind: 1) Allows an agent to know whether a certain type of metadata resource is available or not without having to...
Out of curiousity, how would one go about setting the Meta-Location and Meta-About headers, esp. in a RESTful way? I know I could edit an .htaccess file or...
In light of the conversation on Meta-Query, it occurred to me that a single metadata resource could be about more than one resource. In this case, a single...
Perhaps the Meta-Location could be defined in a way similar to the Allow header: "The Allow header field may be provided with a PUT request to recommend the...
Hi Folks, Some folks have expressed concern about every request to a resource returning a Meta-Location or a Meta-About HTTP header. I think that this is a...
Roger L. Costello
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Feb 25, 2003 7:50 pm
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From: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@...> ... I hadn't really gotten into the Meta-About header, but the Meta-Location header would only be provided if...
Roger L. Costello wrote, ... Same as with Seairth's variant: a Meta-Location: header would only be present in the response if a Meta-Query: header were in the...
Okay, let me try to give a plausible example. Let's start from the beginning. 1. I create a Web service. 2. I create some metadata that describes things about...
Roger L. Costello
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Feb 26, 2003 6:30 pm
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