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RE: XML - Disruptive Technology

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• Subject: RE: XML - Disruptive Technology
• From: "Doug Ransom" <Doug.Ransom@p...>
• Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:37:30 -0800
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• Thread-topic: XML - Disruptive Technology

I prefer 1, but any fit.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...]
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:00 PM
> To: Doug Ransom; Xml-Dev@Lists. Xml. Org (E-mail)
> Subject: RE:  XML - Disruptive Technology
> 
> 
> "Doug Ransom
> Interoperability Architect"
> 
> Which of these definitions would you use to describe your job:
> 
> http://www.sei.cmu.edu/str/indexes/glossary/interoperability.html
> 
> 1.  "Interoperability 
> the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange 
> information and to use the 
> information that has been exchanged [IEEE 90]."
> 
> http://www.itscanada.ca/html/AGM1999/present/ntcip/tsld010.htm
> 
> 2.  "Interoperability Definition
> 
> The ability of systems to provide services to and accept 
> services from other 
> systems and to use the services so exchanged to enable them 
> to operate effectively 
> together.
> 
> ISO TC 204 Document N271
> (Adoption Proposed by ITS America)"
> 
> 3.  RFC 2026, section 4.1.2:
> 
> "For the purposes of this section, "interoperable" means to 
> be functionally 
> equivalent or interchangeable components of the system or 
> process in which 
> they are used."
> 
> How disruptive XML is can vary by selection because it also 
> declares what 
> one thinks XML to be (syntax | infoset | application language 
> | implementation).
> Walter gets the most bang for the buck on the left hand side 
> of that choice. 
> Microsoft, Sun and IBM make the most money on the right hand 
> side.  A lot 
> of us range from end to end, day to day.
> 
> len
> 
> 
> 
> 
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