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Hi Folks, Last week Steve Newcomb sent a message to this list [1] that has me very intrigued. In his message he is hinting at problems, and hinting there is a better way. Consider these snippets of his message: The problem keeps coming up: how to distribute, and limit the distribution, of authority over a large-community-wide document type, among smaller sub-communities. Top-down authority over document types simply can't work across diverse human communities. The authority-distribution problem. Distribution of semantic authority. The W3C's focus on machine-to-machine communication and AI left little room for questions about human issues. Different communities communicate differently within themselves, and their syntaxes need to evolve in different contexts with ever-diverging requirements. XML namespace fiasco This story is very far from being over Questions 1. What is "the authority-distribution problem"? 2. What does it mean to "distribute semantic authority"? 3. What story is far from over? /Roger [1] http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200807/msg00024.html [Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] |
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