Dear Fellow ZNGers,

In consultation with Eliot Christian, Adam Dickmeiss, Sebastian Hammer
and Rob Sanderson, I have written up a proposal for making CQL
amenable to profiling efforts, so that it becomes able to support the
requirements of esoteric communities such as the GEO people and
hopefully the Chemical Abstracts folk.  We would like to discuss this
(or better still, just rubber-stamp it :-) at the forthcoming meeting
in Washington DC.

The proposal is at
        http://zing.z3950.org/cql/profiles.html
A fair amount of that document is background material, so if you're in
a hurry, you might like to skip straight to section 4 (Proposal).
Please read and comment.

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