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On 10/18/13 11:41 AM, Michael Sokolov wrote: No, that's not going to happen. A large point of my point is that expecting people to "just all be adults and get along" is pernicious nonsense that the XML community has normalized through its legalistic approach.Your vision is attractive, but it strikes me as impractical ... wouldn't it be nice if we could just all be adults and get along? Confining battlegrounds to committee rooms isn't really a good way to deal with communications. You're risking everything every day anyway. Armor makes it awfully hard to move, and especially hard to move quickly. Hot oil makes armor a serious disadvantage.I think of schemas and structured conversations as the armor that you need when you go into a hostile environment.I don't think you make the environment less hostile by stripping off your armor. Well, you *can*, but you have to be willing to risk everything. I'm not talking about agreements. I'm talking about taking what someone sends you and seeing what (if anything) you can do with it.Sometimes that may be worth it if you think there is a rational partner with whom you can negotiate. Certainly it's worth trying to create situations where looser agreements can work since everyone benefits. There are certainly situations where the "natural enemies" can't imagine doing it any other way.But there can be situations (cooperating with natural enemies) where more explicit standards keep people from tearing at each other's throats. Thanks, -- Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com/
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