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RE:  maps
Not the iceberg per se.  It is the lack of a system 
to change course fast enough once observed.  Momentum 
and a slow uptake are not a survivable context.  Internet 
Time is only a reason to change authorities if the 
authority has a low latency to response.  The authority 
may have that characteristic in the beginning, but as 
missions are added and the scope of control expands, 
the characteristic is lost.   I guess that is why 
layering is such a black art.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Uche Ogbuji [mailto:uche.ogbuji@f...]

Absolutely!  But don't think ranting will do the trick.  James Clark outlined 
the problems with blessed types in his XML 2001 keynote.  I've railed against 
them and wished for more generic facilities for constraint expression rather 
than a monolithic type-library-by-committee.  I used irrational numbers as my 
example, picking a purposefully tricky case.  Simon has brought up the more 
practical geospatial example.  But the folks who could clean up this mess 
mostly just take in all the warnings and blithely respond "sorry we had to 
satisfy OO and relational data type needs from our chartered requirements".

And so the Titanic lumbers on.  Nought but the iceberg itself will alter its 
course.

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