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Roelant -- Fortunately I received your message just as I'm about to depart for a week. Yes, there is a pre-pre-specification, at http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srwu/specs.html and I've just now put a link to it, from the new SRW/U home page at http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srwu/srw.html which is now linked from the ZING page http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/zing.html There is a private listserv for SRW/U discussion and I'll subscribe you. --Ray Denenberg Roelant Ossewaarde wrote: > Hello, > > I work for a dutch company. We are trying to implement a good S/R-protocol for a large database that will be fed ONIX-data. Because there exist almost no good system to do such in The Netherlands, we are developing 'from scratch'. Having made a Z39.50-implementation in the days that this was still done with BER and ASN.1, I was delighted to see that the good old Z39.50 is now being extended into the SOAP-corner as well. > > Because we want other parties to access our database as well, and because we have strong motivations to choose SOAP, I am very interested in the SRW specification that is now being drafted by the ZING-group. > > Is there already a pre-pre-specification? Is there anything that can help us to get up-to-date with what you are doing in the ZING-group? I would like to contribute our experience of implementing an ONIX-bridge over Z39.50 using SOAP, both to the Z39.50-community and to the ONIX-community. Because experience with good S/R-protocols seems to be missing in the ONIX-community, I believe that a succesful implementation could help Z39.50 in gaining acceptance in that community, which is of great benefit to libraries as well. > > The software we develop will be publicly available. > > Kind regards, > > Roelant Ossewaarde, > CTO Boektrust.