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On 8/19/05, Dave Pawson <davep@d...> wrote: > I wonder if the lessons of XP could be applied here? Given a two year > cycle, prioritise the required features and deliver what you have at the > end of the period, > i.e. down the features list from most to least important. There has been talk (I can't find a public reference so I won't say more, maybe Liam can?) of a new type of group that would do more experimental "design by committee" work that would result in a specification or other work product that had no claims to be a standard. Presumably a regular working group could then pick up such a spec, refactor / refine / test / clarify it and then see it through to Recommendation status. Details aside, I think that is one thing that would address some of the problems noted here, especially Len's long-standing insistence that "specification" and "standard" be clearly separated in people's minds. Or to put it differently, "extreme specwriting" is probably going to be a very useful way to get useful specs written, but there's also the reality that the whole notion of a "standard" implies a waterfall process since it is hard to refactor a standard without breaking applications. XSD clearly illustrates this -- to go back and fix the apparent mistakes would create an awful lot of havoc. Reasonable people can disagree whether that havoc would be worthwhile to clean up XSD 1.0, but I don't think anyone disagrees that we really want to avoid being put in this situation again.
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