Fine by me.

Ralph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:20 AM
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> Subject: requirements and expectations
>
>
> I want to know how people feel about how we should state what
> srw does and
> does not require.  For example, in the result set section:
> http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srw1-1/result-sets.html
>
> "SRW does not require the support of persistent result sets
> that may be
> accessed by a client in subsequent requests. It does require
> the server to
> state whether or not it supports them, ....."
>
> I think  the "does not require" part is fine.  However I would prefer
> (second sentence) "It does require..." changed to "It does expect...".
>
> Because I'm not sure where this "requirement" would (or
> whether it should)
> be expressed.
>
> I would like srw to continue along the lines of publishing a
> "base profile"
> http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srw1-1/base-profile.html
> and avoiding a formal "conformance" section (the base profile
> will serve
> effectively as conformance in most cases, that's what
> customers will point
> vendors to, but for some who want to implement less than the
> base profile,
> we don't have to deal with the philosophical question of
> whether they're
> doing srw or not).  And this is basically what we agreed to
> at the September
> meeting.
>
> Is everyone comfortable with this?
>
> --Ray
>