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From: mikem@tekcae.UUCP (Michael E. Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Database group
Message-ID: <191@tekcae.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 12:27:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 12:27:28 1985
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Reply-To: mikem@tekcae.UUCP (Michael E. Meyer)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Keywords: INGRES, database

The net.database concept is a good idea.  The entire realm of data
management and databases seems to have gone unnoticed on the net.  Our group
here at TEK is interested in data management in general and databases in
particular.  I would suggest that the group we need is net.dm.ingres where
the dm=data management.

An example of data management issues that transcend the database world are
semantic grammars for data translation i.e. EDIF, IGES (you can see we have
a rather parochial view of the world).  Therefore, the data management world
could grow to:

	net.dm        ........	General Data Management Issues

	net.dm.irds   ........  Data Management issues related to meta-data
				issues.  A discussion could begin here on the
				IRDS (Information Resource Dictionary System) 
				standard just sent out by X3H4 for public
				review.

	net.dm.ingres ........  INGRES issues

	net.dm.<dbms> ........  <Other DBMSs>

	net.dm.trans  ........  Data Interfaces (Translators)

I would be interested in comments and other ideas but in any case let's get
some discussion of the DM issues started...

Michael E. Meyer
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