Re: Specific goals

[David Collier-Brown <davecb@Canada.Sun.COM>]

Larry Masinter wrote:
> I would like to find some forum (whether IAHC or somewhere else) for
> discussing the larger issues of naming in the Internet.
> 
> It is my belief that we could find and deploy a scalable solution for
> naming in the Internet that would deal with:
>   * trademark conflicts
>   * internationalization: a desire to use other than ASCII
>     in names
>   * fuzzy match (detect misspellings and close spellings but not
>     "search")
>   * authority
> 
> and that these names would be useful for both electronic mail and for
> URL/URN replacement.

	That's broader than the question asked by Merton Campbell Crockett
about the DNS being used as a search engine.  
	The narrower problemfalls across at least the
Integrated Directory Services (ids) WG,
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ids-charter.html,

Access, Searching and Indexing of Directories (asid) WG,
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/asid-charter.html
and possibly the Common Indexing Protocol (find) WG
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/find-charter.html
and Service Location Protocol (svrloc) WG,
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/svrloc-charter.html.


> This would mean that the browser "Open Location" dialog box would NOT
> immediately go to DNS but to some other directory lookup (not search)
> system. A similar kind of facility could be used for email
> applications.

  It is interesting that you just pointed out in three words the
difference between DBS and the various web-index-thingies: it's
a lookup, not a search service.   A subtle but important disticntion.

  Thanks!

--dave
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