Packaging and related-resource discovery

[Mark D. Anderson]

I don't know if that was a request for comments or not, but....

the document seems a little loose about distinguishing:

- the problem of how to associate/identify a related resource 
from within another (linking)

- the problem of determining what related resources exist for
a given document (perhaps scoped by type), when that given document
does not have embedded/inlined information (discovery)

- the problem of how to map through a level of naming indirection,
whereby there is a known relation to a name but not to an explicitly
identified location (resolution)

The first seems easily solvable by a standardization from among the
plethora of existing mechanisms.

The last seems solvable, and there are already a variety of proposals 
(rfc2169, draft-ietf-urn-dns-rds-01.txt, cowan's "XML Catalog", etc..),
but it seems vulnerable to commercial stonewalling.

The second seems both technically hard and vulnerable to commercial
politics, so i'm not hopeful.

-mda


--On Monday, September 27, 1999 1:35 PM -0700 Tim Bray <tbray at textuality.com> wrote:

> I (and I think some other people) are becoming increasingly convinced
> that the need for some sort of an "XML Packaging" facility is becoming 
> increasingly urgent.  I was asked to write up a motivating statement for
> the XML Plenary meeting that is happening this Wednesday.  I thought that
> the xml-deviants might also find it of interest. 
> 
> It's at http://www.textuality.com/xml/why-pkg.html -Tim




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