Confused?
DC, PICS, PICS/NG, XML, DSig, TCN, MCF.
Are there too many metadata activities?
I'm confident that things are coming together. In fact, I'm quite excited to see some of these issues finally approaching closure after the web community has struggled so long to address them.
I hope things will become more clear to you and everybody else as things develop.
Dan Connolly, W3C Architecture Domain Leader. Posted to www-html list on 28 May 1997
There is a need for these metadata activities
Consider the metadata requirements for, say, a University prospectus