Ray Denenberg writes:
 > Farrukh, that document is a preliminary draft, 12 years old. And it is as
 > far as ZDSR got. There is no official Z39.50 specification addressing
 > distrbuted search.   

... but let the record show that this is because no-one has ever
demonstrated a need for such a specification.  The thing about Z39.50
as a switchboard protocol for metasearch is that It Just Works.

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