DASL Goals

Jim Davis
42nd IETF, Chicago.
Aug 25, 1998

Slides as presented at IETF, with modifications to reflect annotations made during discussion.

DASL Motivation

Outline

Scenario: property search

How important are queries against structured properties?

Scenarios: content search

Scenario: site navigation

Scenario: search options

Terminology

Requirements

All requirements below are to be understood as being prefaced by either "It must be possible to" or "It should be possible to"

Scope

Criteria

Criteria 3: string properties

Content search

Result Records

Other

Discovery

External to DASL

DASL should follow DAV and HTTP standards for:

Out of Scope (until DAV defines)