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Yep. Hurry up and wait.... Then there is the arguing over the names. I think Bosak et al will do something useful in UBL but that the mountain of legacy, competing efforts, etc will make penetration a hard task and that is always the case unless one is putting the language out in a vacuum. Situation normal. HumanML gets gapes because some people dropped some fantastic claims about what the language would do. Anyone involved in personnel, public safety, theatre, animation, anthropology, sociology and most of the humanities knows that this kind of information is already collected and applied. The same gapes were seen when the first business and enterprise modeling languages were proposed in the eighties and in fact, some of the UBLers gaped widest but are now working on precisely these kinds of concepts. Neither are that big a deal; just exercises in schematization, not magic. It rare that markup specialists invent anything. They take what is there, do the rationalization, name the names, structure it, and put their own names on the results. No one should get too excited by this kind of work except to see what can be done with the results. People hunger for press; that is a disease as rampant on the web as a common cold in winter. The work itself is a yawner and why, I suspect, we enjoy our controversies on this list. Keeps us awake. :-) len -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:jlowery@s...] Well, I got a smile from after hearing about OASIS' UBL initiative recently. Brought me back to the days when I was at Boeing and some group that was put in charge of standardizing the company's "data dictionary" told us we had to change the names of items in our still-in-development data model. That was fair enough, but we had identified bits of data that they didn't have in their dictionary. So they told us to wait on naming these things until we heard back from them. Never did hear from them again. Not that we felt it prudent to wait, mind you... Maybe UBL will have better luck, but I'll in the meantime be plowing while they're formalizing.
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