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- <chapter><title>Future Directions</title>
-
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+ <chapter id="future"><title>Future Directions</title>
+
<para>
We have a new and better version of the front-end server on the drawing
board. Resources and external commitments will govern when we'll be
flexibility, greater support for access/resource control, and easy
support for Explain (possibly with Zebra as an extra database engine).
</para>
-
- <para>
- We now support all PDUs of Z39.50-1995. If there is one of the
- supporting structures that you need but can't find in the prt*.h
- files, send us a note; it may be on its way.
- </para>
-
+
<para>
The 'retrieval' module needs to be finalized and documented. We think
it can form a useful resource for people dealing with complex record
structures, but for now, you'll mostly have to chew through the code
yourself to make use of it. Not acceptable.
</para>
-
+
+ <para>
+ &yaz; is a BER toolkit and as such should support all protocols
+ out there based on that. We'd like to see running ILL applications.
+ It shouldn't be that hard. Another thing that would be intersting is
+ LDAP. Maybe a generic framework for doing IR using both LDAP and
+ Z39.50 transparently.
+ </para>
+
<para>
Other than that, YAZ generally moves in the directions which appear to
make the most people happy (including ourselves, as prime users of the
us a note and let's see what we can come up with.
</para>
</chapter>
-
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