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 "Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > I wrote a piece on this long ago: > http://simonstl.com/articles/doubting.htm > > "Moving from the 'Community of Experts' to the Community". Without presuming to speak for Simon, I think that the proper (and the only workable) boundary between the experts and the community is this: domain experts are needed to produce specialized processes which implement their expertise. The specificity of each such process to its proper domain must not be compromised by a priori consensus on standard vocabulary, expected data schematics, intended semantics or any other API based on the nature of input to or data manipulation within such an expert domain. The definition of input and manipulation is the province of the expert *within a domain of expertise*, where its opacity is the consequence of its rarefied nature and specificity to its task. The interest of the community is in the widest possible access, over the lowest barriers of a priori understanding, to the outputs of those expert processes. As a medium of publication the internetwork topology is well suited to provide that access, as soon as we can understand why we should leave what goes into a process in the opaque world of the experts, but insist that what comes out is the community's, on which to perform further useful work. Respectfully, Walter Perry 
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