In the meantime, I've copied this to the cdin nospam at cdin.org mailing list, so
it will be available for reference via the web archive at
http://mailman.cdin.org/pipermail/cdin/
Cheers,
-g
August Zajonc wrote:
>
> Wow, LOTs of ideas, here is a quick collection of all the good ones I've
> seen so far. Greg or someone interested in keeping a running list of some of
> them? I'd volunteer but am not running a CDDB replacement web page, so...
>
> There are a couple of issues so far. They are:
>
> Database structure, security, practical, legal.
>
> Starting with the structure:
>
> == Really neat idea popped up from Dave Ahn:
>
> What I'd like to see is this is a generic format that is extensible enough
> to be a generic Multimedia Indexing Format (MIF?) that can span CD's (audio,
> multisession), DVD's (video, future audio), and even MP3's. We havea great
> opportunity here, and simply designing a replacement for CDDB would be very
> limiting in scope.
>
> This would mean that a song entry for a track on a cd, and a movie that uses
> that song, and an mp3 file could all be the same if the track was the same.
> Excellent suggestion.
>
> == Martin Nilsson suggests Unicode..
>
> - All entries should be stored as Unicode. Or to be more correct, the
> database should input and output Unicode data, how it is stored is of no
> concern to me. If we are to get an IETF approval of any protocols they have
> to support unicode according to their new guidelines.
>
> Could complicate things for programmers to deal with. Maybe through a flag
> if you want a unicode response?
>
> Protocols?
>
> == HTML/XML camp seems solid
>
> The combination of HTML and XML seems solid to a lot of people, and allows
> for just the flexibility that is being discussed.
>
> And now for some security
>
> == Everyone uses PGP? Or keeping it simple.
>
> There have been some suggestions for a really elegant web of trust centered
> around PGP. Some have expressed the concern that its a bit much... I tend to
> agree. CDDB has done well so far with almost nothing. One option would be to
> have a moderated sort of review system... Someone says, hey thats junk and
> it gets killed. Most cases will be very obvious
>
> == Legal
>
> Everything open seems to be the agreement. How to do this. Was some mention
> of the Open Content model...
-- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/