Date:Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:05:18 -0500
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From:Ray Denenberg <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:Re: draft announcement
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What do the rest of you think? Should we wait? How long would it take to
finish this testing? By Tuesday?
--Ray
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From: Z39.50 Next-Generation Initiative [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Mike Taylor
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 6:36 AM
Hi, Ray. I would be very, very worried if we released now that we'd
run into exactly the same thing as with 1.0, that none of the supposed
reference implementations interoperate due to unreocgnised
contradictory interpretations of the specification. Our experience
seems to be that _every single_ attempt to connect one implementation
to another uncovers at least one of these. I will be much happier to
release when each of Rob's, Adam's, Matthew's and Ralph's clients has
successfully performed SRW-1.1 searching and retrieval in each of the
others's servers. We ought to be able to get that done in, what,
another week? Surely worthwhile.