Introducing Structured Data Types into Internet-scale Information Systems

Thesis proposal

This is John Ockerbloom's thesis proposal, presented May 23, 1994. If you read it and have comments, he would be delighted to hear them.

If you want a quick summary, try reading the abstract.

Here is the main document.

Table of contents

Abstract
  1. Introduction and overview
  2. Key concepts
  3. Internet information systems: Uses and problems
  4. The design of an Internet information object system
  5. Related work
  6. The plan of the thesis
  7. Expected contributions
  8. References
spok@cs.cmu.edu (John Ockerbloom)