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At 03:54 10/07/2000, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >Sometimes, the theorists and adventurers have to >go ahead and create what they think will work cognizant >of the fact that by the time an imminent well-funded requirement >emerges, it may be years later and there will be different >names on the specifications. That is a hard and bitter >pill, but it is the case. NASA has been working on >ion engines since the mid sixties. Only in the >90s did we finally see a working engine and no one >who worked on that team was an inventor of the technology, >the concepts, just the implementations. Len, I fully support the concept of "pure research". Absolutely invaluable, if we are to meet future, unknown, requirements. But that is not what we are doing here. We are creating _standards_. They do not innovate, they set in stone the best concepts that have been invented so far, so everyone can talk the same language. But, to my mind, we are now well into uncharted territory. Why then are we still creating standards? J ------------------------- James Robertson Step Two Designs Pty Ltd SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy Illumination: an out-of-the-box Intranet solution http://www.steptwo.com.au/ jamesr@s... *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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