RE: What is CONTENT?

["Iacovou, Danny" <danny.iacovou@ebenx.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Barron Housel [mailto:housel@cisco.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: What is CONTENT?


On ext:  Practically speaking a lot of software keys off of the extension.
However, technically speaking it doesn't have to be meaningful -- i.e., an
extension of "sue" could mean "jpeg" if the content-type so indicated.  We
could all agree to formalize this; however, I'm concerned that other content
issues (e.g., language) may affect the choice as well.  
 
  I think as the world of meta-data becomes more rich most of the meta-data
people will
  want to "get at" will have to be stored someplace other than the domain
name or the
  file extension. I think it would be wise to assume that, and plan for
that.
  
 Language is a content issue I've alway been interested in. Not to toot(?)
our own
 horn but I think the Gopher+ notion of multiple-views solved the problem
almost 
 perfectly. That solution solved "the language issue" in a very general way
which made
 it very usefull.