DRIS will build a frame to integrate all kinds of information on
Internet.It's a information retrieval infrastructure.
But there still no a work group for information retrieval service in
IETF,but it may be the most important service on Internet.
There are some pre-discussions in http://www.irtf.org ,just for information
retrieval infrastructure.
So building a work group may make all related work (including DASL) more
efficient.
What's your opinions?
There used to exist a DASL WG and its main proposal included a framework
for sending Search requests to Web servers (including WebDAV servers).
The framework was complemented by one proposed syntax for searching
the resources stored directly on that server according to their
metadata values. Another syntax for the same framework could
easily allow some Web servers to act as search aggregators or
proxies for other repositories -- including not just a larger
group of Web servers but also non-HTTP URLs could be returned.
Now the DASL WG doesn't exist, but the work still continues on
the WebDAV WG mailing list.