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"LeVan,Ralph" wrote: > But if I define index "pooh" as being use=1016, structure=6, ... is there > any problem? I'm unclear on the current thinking of how explicitly index are defined in terms of Z39.50 attributes, because we did some serious decoupling at the July meeting,. For example, the bath indexes aren't tied to explicit attributes anymore, they just point to the profile. And take dc.titleWord, for example. Certainly there is no prescribed use attribute (since there never has been agreement on a Z39.50 use attribute for dc elements). So this means that one server supporting dc.titleWord could say that it corresponds to bib-1 type= use, value 4 another to bib-1 type=use, value 1097, and another XD type=accessPoint value =1. Right? And the structure? bib-1 type="structure" value =1, or utility type=format/structure value = (all these words) (any of these words) ?? And if we say that indexes are defined in terms of attributes, then which attributes? Use and structure? (We've decided that for example truncation would be represented within the cql syntax) and if those two, does that lock us into bib-1? I know it's a bit late for these questions; they've all been asked before but never answered. I think before we go further (or at least very soon, and before version 1.0 is set) we need a paper added as a normative spec that say what an index is. --Ray