> From: Mike Taylor [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 10:45 AM
>
> On the matter of Dublin Core and (non-DC) cross-domain searching: it
> is my conviction that the current Z39.50 XD set was a mistake, and we
> would be silly to propagate that mistake in the SRW, especially given
> that a large part of a reason for ZRW is to present IR concepts in
> terms that will already be familiar to many people.  We should go with
> vanilla DC, warts and all.

My problem with calling this DC is that we aren't the DCMI (although I sit
right next to them) and it isn't our standard to be defining.  They have
avoided the issue of searching and I don't want to be the one to force it on
them.  So, I really think we should call it XD.

Ralph