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RE: Postel's law, exceptions

• To: "'Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)'" <clbullar@i...>, "'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@m...>
• Subject: RE: Postel's law, exceptions
• From: "Bob Wyman" <bob@w...>
• Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:36:22 -0500
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Claude L. Bullard wrote:
> DRM turns into a complex subject as I read more. 
> While not an XML topic per se, ...
	That is a subject of interpretation... You see, I defined the
License Document Interchange Format (LDIF)[1] using ASN.1. Now, since
ASN.1 is an "XML Schema Language", what that means is that the XML
encoding for LDIF is defined. In fact, it has been defined ever since
long before XML even existed... 

	Note: I've already received two flames (one more polite than
the other...) from people offering horror stories of life with LMF...
I'm surprised that so many ex-VMS folk are watching this list on a
Sunday afternoon... Let me just say that in the almost 15 years since
I worked on LMF, I have never heard a single complaint that pointed
out a fault in the code or the design of the system. *Every* complaint
I've ever heard has been traceable to improper system management, bad
data from salesmen, or improper support from field service people.
*Every* "problem" that has ever been described to me has been one that
was known at the time of design and that I provided some specific
mechanism or procedure to address. Someday, someone might come up with
something that surprises me. But, nobody has been able to do so yet.

		bob wyman

[1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=5438508

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