RE: [search-ws] queryn: Some further comments

["Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <rden@loc.gov>]

From: Matthew Dovey [mailto:m.dovey@jisc.ac.uk]
> i) we agree that we change the spec to allow the value queryType to
> determine which parameter(s) contain the query. The default is that the
> query will be passed via a parameter called "query", but a specific
> queryType can specify otherwise.

That's where we were when we were still debating the usefulness of the
queryN parameter. I believe we now agree on it's usefulness, and so I
suggest that the presence of queryN signals this alternative way of passing
query information, and therefore there a new query type isn't needed.


> ii) the status of this queryType - normative, non-normative but
> included in spec; Nature specific extension etc. I would favour that
> this is at least a non-normative part of the spec.

We are crafting a solution that proposes first class SRU parameters.  I
don't see how that can be anything but normative. 

--Ray