The main aim of DRIS is to build the information retrieval infrastructure for Internet. XML/RDF/Webservice is just tools. In fact, in IRTF,http://www.irtf.org,an organization for the "evolution of the future Internet"(supported by IETF) There has been a work group "Information Infrastructure Architecture".
This proposed group can be regarded as its continued work. > I think it's not clear that this is an appropriate IETF working group that > is being proposed: >
