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Re: Standards and Namespaces - tangling two threads

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• Subject: Re: Standards and Namespaces - tangling two threads
• From: ari@c... (K. Ari Krupnikov)
• Date: 31 May 2003 18:24:41 -0700
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Mike Champion <mc@x...> writes:

> * Avoid "Big Up Front Specs" - Seek to agree only on what is minimally
> necessary for a business collaboration or technical interoperability.
> 
> * Keep it simple: When it gets ugly, re-factor.  Better to break the
> implementations of early adopters than to have the whole effort be for
> nought because nobody can understand it except the members of the
> original committee.
> 
> * Have a tight iteration cycle of specs, implementation, testing, and
> refactoring/rewriting.  If it causes more pain than gain, it fails the
> test.
> 
> 
> [speaking only for myself, needless to say]
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Which is rather unfortunate.


I would add "avoid pushing your company's products as requirements for
semi-related specs"

Ari.

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