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  • To: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@l...
  • Subject: RE: RE: Painful USA Today article (was RE: AN N: RESTTutorial)
  • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
  • Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 12:47:43 -0500

RE: RE:  Painful USA Today article (was RE:  AN N: RES
No.  I like the specs with simple features per spec that 
I can apply to different problems efficiently.  I specifically 
don't like garbanzo bean salad specs.

The problem is to get a spec a customer can cite that does not 
pull all the other features in by normative reference. I like 
them even leaner than you.  

This:

  XML [check/uncheck]

or this

  ANI/ALI packet support.  XML format IAW NENA Specification. [check/uncheck]

The second option is money for value.  The first option is 
wasted money.  Real solutions for systems required to 
interoperate; not open systems rant.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...]

On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 13:22, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> >I'm not content with selling the world an enormous mash of features and
> >possible combinations of features and leaving it to developers of
> >particular applications to sort out which parts are valuable and which
> >are trash.
>  
> They have to sort out which features will solve a problem for them 
> and which are not of use to a particular application.  You can't do 
> that for them.  I am your customer.

So you _like_ the model where specs contain trillions of features that
_you_ get to pick and choose from?

I'm sorry Len, but I think you've been selling closed systems for way
too long.  

Those of us out in the open world can't cope with that model, and damn
well shouldn't have to - especially on specs from the W3C, which
theoretically cares about the useful-because-it's-an-open-model Web.

You may be _a_ customer, but you aren't the only one.
 

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