Re: [Handle-info] Web Services for Handle Servers

[Larry Lannom <llannom@cnri.reston.va.us>]

I'll address this question from Mark:

On Nov 16, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Mark Donoghue wrote:

> What are your plans for the working group?  I'm interested to learn  
> more.

Our plans, where 'our' equals the folks inside CNRI and some we've  
spoken with outside of CNRI at some recent meetings, are quite  
informal at the moment. We've noticed, however, that the number of  
folks developing handle applications which are more than simple 'one  
handle to one url' redirects is growing, which is good news from my  
perspective, but that a number of people are simultaneously working  
on the same problem, which is potential bad news if those efforts  
don't leverage each other. Web services is the most recent and  
prominent example of that.

What I would like to see evolve is a 'best practices' set of  
documents or recommendations combined with some sort of review panel.  
Such a panel would serve primarily to sanity check recommendations,  
verifying that the proposed approach made practical sense and was  
worth considering. It would not, for example, prevent the  
recommendation of alternate solutions to the same problem. Advice on  
this issue is welcome. Thanks.

Larry




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