On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, zachary rosen wrote: > > I think DeanMediaTeam is great. They are fulfilling a very important > > task. There is a very large need for a community organized around the > > creation of dean media, and it think they will do a hell of a lot for this > > campaign. I also think they would be the perfect choice to maintain the > > global media repository that tracks all the media on the network. > > > > I don't think they should be the central authority, spoke-and-wheel, > > broadcast-center to ALL network dean campaign media. > > When i look at your first paragraph here i think we are in complete > agreement. There needs to be some place where you can do a global media > search, and we are both saying that DMT is a good place for it. > > Your second paragraph would be a misinterpretation of what i'm suggesting. > The metadata DB is just a place to put your URLs so other people can find > them. The media itself would be hosted all over the Net and people could > work on it wherever they please. Well I am undoubtedly guilty of using some rather inflammatory descriptors, but i stand by accusation. It is a rather simple design descision: distribute the metada intelligence, or have DMT keep it centralized. I see absolutly no good reason why it should be centralized, and many many reason why it should be distributed. -Zack > > -- ?!ng >
