Renato Iannella writes:
| Martin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
| >
| > The main question is probably what Marc asked me: having gotten all of
| > this meta-information in Dublin Core Markup Language, embedded in HTML,
| > with arbitrary formats linked in, etc etc, how does one get it off the
| > server on which it lives ?
|
| The STARTS project is trying to address this problem.
| It is attempting to define an internet resource query
| and retrieval "protocol", that would (should) work with
| HTTP.
And Netscape of course, with RDM (=> SOIF on steroids)
This particular approach with the META method just feels to me like it
would have been one of the next logical steps in the evolution of HTTP,
if it hadn't been dragged off into the decidedly dodgy realms of
"shopping baskets" and click trail tracking (with added cookies :-)
It seems to be worth exploring, but there are perhaps a few nits that
need picking before it can be deployed in a big way ?
Martin
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