• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• To: xml-dev@x...
• Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 01:34:33 -0500

James Robertson wrote:
> 
> ...
>
> But, to my mind, we are now well into uncharted
> territory. Why then are we still creating standards?

In the absence of standards (even mediocre ones) we have no hope for
interoperability. The Web was innovative and poorly understood in its
day. We are still patching the holes and will probably do so for many
years.
-- 
 Paul Prescod - Not encumbered by corporate consensus
"Computer Associates is expected to come in with better than expected 
earnings." Bob O'Brien, quoted in
	- http://www.fool.com/news/2000/foth000316.htm

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