[alicebot-archcomm] More on: Looking for <fetch> in all the wrong places?

[Gary Robertson]

Ernest,

Just to be sure I am clear on my wish list for fetch functionality, 
consider my business model of how all of this could work: the AIML 
processing runs on a different server from the server that manages the 
"fetch data" processing, which sometimes relies on contacting one or more 
additional servers to extract needed data.  The "fetch data" processing 
server does whatever it must and in whatever language is best to collect 
the data and to package it and deliver it to the AIML server through a 
simple and clean <fetch> interface.

That is why I have been so focused on such an easy to use and universally 
applied <fetch> interface.

Under this model, any AIML application may quickly and easily rely on other 
servers to do the bulk of the work.   Specialized tasks can be distributed 
throughout the world.  Now, developers of "fetch" applications can charge 
(or barter) separately for their offerings.

-gr