Re: Web Philosophy

["Martin v. Loewis" <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>]

> > There is, of course, another alternative: For those results that you
> > are interested in, participate in the process of defining the
> > recommendations.
> 
> That is in *no* way a guarantee that your influence will have 
> the desired effect.

Standardization is always the result of negotiation. Perhaps you are
wrong, and it is for the better of the world that you did not get what
you wanted.

> Kind of like somone saying "I want to start a working group
> to define the canonical use of milk". One person want to
> make cheese, the other, casein.

If there is a need for both cheese and casein, this working group
should find out that there is more than one application for milk, and
recommend two uses of it.

Regards,
Martin