There used to exist a DASL WG and its main proposal included a framework
for sending Search requests to Web servers (including WebDAV servers).
The framework was complemented by one proposed syntax for searching
the resources stored directly on that server according to their
metadata values.
After publishing the message propose some information retrieval protocols
for Internet, we received many advices. Now we
want to build a new work group for this issue, asking for more advices.
Information retrieval service may exceed E-mail
service and become the most import service of Internet,
At 15:20 08/01/04 +0800, wang liang wrote:
After publishing the message propose some information retrieval protocols
for Internet, we received many advices. Now we
want to build a new work group for this issue, asking for more advices.
I think it's not clear that this is an appropriate IETF
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