Consortium result was the compromising of attendance interests. Short term agreements wrote in many aspects. The long term agreements, standards, will come later. There will be many standards, to serve the same function whether there will call difference name. The market is too big for one standard.
Z39.50 is in their concern. Because Z39.50 is too complex, they will develop "Z39.50 lite" version for WWW. However, centralize indexing server with CGI interface still alive.
Robot.txt reached some agreements. However, this information is also base on Web master of each site. If the sites did not provide this information, the standard is no meaning. Robot's writer may not concern about this file too. Server can not protected itself against undeclared robot because, nature of HTTP, no information to make browser and robot different.
For me, results protocol from a searching service and distribute searching is impossible to be standard. Imagine that we have a software that sent the result to every search engine and collect the results, and manipulate that data. However, how the search engine and index provider get the profit in this situation. How do they able to sell advertises? Except, some time in the future, they charge for their service.
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