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From: "Joe English" <jenglish@f...> > Roger L. Costello wrote: > > > > To my mind there are two ways for a technology to evolve: > > > > (1) A committee has complete reigns on the technology and decides how it > > evolves. [...] > > (2) A group creates the initial framework. That ends its role. From > > then on the technology evolves independently, in a distributed fashion > > as the market demands. [...] > > Also: > > (3) A small group creates an initial implementation, and is > in complete control of its evolution. If it proves popular, > other groups may later create independant implementations. > That's when it's time to form a committee. > > Standardization is only necessary when multiple implementations > need to interoperate. Certainly the primary goal of standardization should be interoperability. In the context of non-network standards, interoperability is equivalent to interchangeability. E.g., when a document is schema-valid according to the producer's parser implementation but not according to the consumer's parser implementation, using the same schema, the two parsers do not "interoperate". Bob Foster
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