Date:         Fri, 7 Jan 2005 12:05:20 GMT
Reply-To:     "Z39.50 Next-Generation Initiative" <[log in to unmask]>
Sender:       "Z39.50 Next-Generation Initiative" <[log in to unmask]>
From:         Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: Adlib Base profile
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              (message from Dr Robert Sanderson on Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:33:41
              +0000)

[snip, snip, snip]

> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:33:41 +0000
> From: Dr Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > That's a good argument indeed. I'll try not to whine anymore ;-)
>
> It's all good :)  As EA says,  Challenge Everything.

Agreed.  I think that we are now 90% of the way to a _really_ good
Adlib profile that both fulfils the needs of the Adlib community and
exemplifies SRW/U best practice leading to the broadest possibility
interoperability with non-Adlib SRW/U implementations.  I take my hat
off to both Hedzer and Rob for both the good taste they have exhibited
throughout, and also for their sheer stamina :-)

I _think_ the one remaining issue may be that of which context set the
proposed new allUnderlyingIndexesIncludingThoseNotOtherwiseVisible
index belongs.  It could go in the "adlib" context set because that
what's it been invented for, but I think it has much wider
applicability and so probably belongs in the "cql" set described at
        http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/cql/context-sets/cql.html
The difficulties will be choosing the new index's name, and crafting
the prose such that it makes a very clear distinction between the
serverChoice, anywhere and allUnderlyingIndexesIncludingBlahBlahBlah
indexes.

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