Re: WWW and prospero

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Date: Sat, 9 Nov 91 12:13:19 +0100
From: jfg@bernd.cern.ch (Jean-Francois Groff)
Message-id: <9111091113.AA11283@bernd.cern.ch>
To: Edward Vielmetti <emv@ox.com>
Cc: bcn@june.cs.washington.edu, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch,
        rusty@mail.cornell.edu
Subject: Re: WWW and prospero
References: <9111080900.AA04556@ nxoc01.cern.ch >

> As an aside, it would be really nice if WWW could be taught the
> Prospero protocol like it knows WAIS....

This has a high priority in our wish-list, but we are very busy
preparing a new kernel for WWW (you can call it WOW if you can't
pronounce that !), which features multiple TYPED links from/to each
anchor, so you can write knowbots for instance, and fast (we hope)
format negotiation between clients and servers.

The availability of this will be announced on the www-interest mailing
list. To register on that, send a mail to listserv@info.cern.ch with
body text "add www-interest". Your mail address will be extracted from
the From: field.

Sorry, no firm dates yet, but expect it by the end of the year.

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        Jean-Francois Groff (jfg@cernvax.cern.ch)
        World-Wide Web project
        CERN, ECP division
        CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
        Phone: +41 22 767 3755
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