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- Anders,
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- >> systems within systems within systems!
-
- > [expletive deleted] mess !!. I have written to Joyce R. and said
- that we need some kind of structure and a worldwide cooperation about
- datastructure.
-
- There two areas -- orgainzing the data structure itself, and
- coordinating addressing/protocols/formats. Both are in embryonic
- stages at the moment so a few concurrent ideas must be useful to the
- world. Both can also, to a certain extent, be resolved by a "survival
- of the fittest" principle (as Brewster argues in [1]): Those reviews,
- overviews and indexes which have the best coverage, signal to noise
- ratio and good links will be read most, and quoted most. It would
- save time, though, if all the projects pooled resources a bit more.
- Some unaligned funding would help of course...
-
- Various people (CC'd on this mail) are talking about putting
- together a mailing list about resolving technical issues. Personally,
- I don't mind where the list is -- it sounds like a good idea. The
- problem seems to be working out the overlap with lists such as
- www-talk, wais-talk, archie-people, the anon. ftp IETF WG., various
- public lists [2], etc etc. Perhaps someobody could try to make a
- "state of the nation(?)" list of who's doing what now.
-
- Tim
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- __________________________________________________________
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-
- References:
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- [1]Brewster Kahle on WAIS concepts (much applies to other systems
- too)
- www file://quake.think.com//pub/wais/doc/wais-concepts.txt
- [2] List of some lists involved in NIR:
- www http://info.cern.ch:8001/wais.cic.net:210/lists network
- information retrieval
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