I'd be in favour of seeing the requirements first - if it really is just
to limit the number of sockets connects a client may make to a single
server then a low level approach might be more applicable (e.g. SOAP
over HTTP 1.1; a MultipleSRWRequest which contains in it a array of
SearchRetrieveRequests etc.). Also whether this is something that would
be required to be implemented in SRU as well as SRW.

Matthew

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> > One person at the NISO meeting suggested that you should be 
> able to send
> > different queries to different logical databases.. however, 
> I'm not at all
> > sure that this requirement is universal, and it would seem 
> to me to add
> > unnecessary complexity.
> 
> Shall we shelve the multiple database issue until the NISO 
> group come up
> with a specific list of requirements?  Is this reasonable for 
> us to expect
> them to actually do?
> 
> Rob
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