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There is no reasonable and workable solution to this problem. It goes to the heart of the freedom of use of metalanguage standards. Registration to ensure that available specifications and designs are publicly disseminated is a good idea. However, only contractual requirements make them binding to any given project or process. People just have to learn how to read, evaluate and choose well. Otherwise, turn the web into a public utility, regulate it from whatever government turns your crank, and get ready for the walls of communication so carefully dismantled in the last decade to go back up fast and furious. Be careful what you ask of your babysitter. len -----Original Message----- From: Joel Bender [mailto:jjb5@c...] >I just feel that there is now more XML APIs than I can >keep track of, so I want it all to go into one place ;-) >Kinda pragmatic thing. CPAN is pragmatic. There is an article that just floated through my inbox about OASIS work that is at least related (see below). I would rather not have to be an OASIS member to get my buzzwords registered, and besides, your database would probably have more than one entry pointing to one of theirs :-). Joel ------------------------------------------------------------ XML Specifications Where are the standards? by Rich Seeley The rapid and unchecked proliferation of XML-related standards for a variety of specialized and vertical market applications is becoming a headache not only for developers and software vendors, but also for standards advocacy groups. Outside a select group of metadata analysts and XML gurus, who knows how many standards are in the works and which are unique and which overlap? The Websites for various standards bodies are like the proverbial blind men washing the pachyderm. Each one has detailed information on one part of the beast, but few if any have a concept of the whole elephant. An attempt to remedy this situation will be made at the Interoperability Summit in Orlando, Florida, scheduled for Dec. 6 and 7. On the agenda of the meeting, sponsored by standards bodies including HR-XML, OASIS, OMG, UN/CEFACT, and XBRL.org, are plans for creating a Standards Metadata Registry. If it were successful, the registry would be a place "where common metadata can be stored for standards efforts, promoting interoperability of specifications across different consortia," organizers say. "A Standards Metadata Registry will allow groups to publicize their specifications and discover what other organizations are doing," according to Karl Best, director of technical operations for the Boston-based OASIS standards consortium. "This will lead to better communication between the various standards bodies, resulting in less overlap of efforts and interoperability of completed work." For more information: http://www.omg.org/interop/.
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