Notifications Study Group Summary Notifications Study Group Summary Notifications are a mechanism for making users or processes aware of events relating to an entity such as a document or set of documents. Notifications are sent as real-time or queued messages and may represent a discrete event or be a summary of events.
Notifications deal with both syntatic and semantic events.
The group considered it important to implement notification support in a fashion that improved network scalibility. Usage Scenarios Notifications will support requirements ranging from management of the WWW infrastructure thru application specific requirements. To accomplish this, a number of attributes need to be associated with notifications. These must include structured values understood by the WWW as well as application unique attributes. The representation should be compact but extensible.