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Or just ask questions on XML-Dev.... about anything. godz always have a good answer even to a bad question. ;-) <op-ed>A good standard needs to rot on the line for awhile, just like a game bird. We made up this myth called Internet Time and used it to muscle other groups and works off the line, only to discover that our own groups and works are every bit as flawed and made worse because they didn't spend enough time rotting in the wind before being cut down for basting. Some people think the revolution is over, killed by BigCos, lawyers, the music industry, and so on. In fact, the normal damping controls kicked in about on time. I think the real revolution is just starting and most of what has happened for the last ten years was staging. This revolution is about communication. Like a performing band, it takes a lot of practice before even very skilled players can improvise in real time.</op-ed> len -----Original Message----- From: Rick Jelliffe [mailto:ricko@a...] Natural language communication is always flawed, and formal specs in artificial languages often leave chunks out or themselves need proving or err on the side of specifying what is easy to represent in their notation/formalism. Executable specs for standards (such as IDL) are quite a lot better, but most specs are not for interfaces. So the idea of standards as Holy Writ passed down from the gods messes everyone up: a standard is the result of negotiations from some community, and the best way to make standards work is to integrate in with that community and to get to know the original intent.
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