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On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 23:10, Bob Foster wrote:
> From: "Joe English" <jenglish@flightlab.com>
> > Roger L. Costello wrote:
> > >
> > > To my mind there are two ways for a technology to evolve:
> > >
> > > (1) A committee has complete reigns on the technology and decides how it
> > > evolves. [...]
> > > (2) A group creates the initial framework. That ends its role. From
> > > then on the technology evolves independently, in a distributed fashion
> > > as the market demands. [...]
> >
> > Also:
> >
> > (3) A small group creates an initial implementation, and is
> > in complete control of its evolution. If it proves popular,
> > other groups may later create independant implementations.
> > That's when it's time to form a committee.
> >
> > Standardization is only necessary when multiple implementations
> > need to interoperate.
>
> Certainly the primary goal of standardization should be interoperability. In
> the context of non-network standards, interoperability is equivalent to
> interchangeability. E.g., when a document is schema-valid according to the
> producer's parser implementation but not according to the consumer's parser
> implementation, using the same schema, the two parsers do not
> "interoperate".
Which means that W3C XML Schema is a new proof (after HTML but for
different reasons) that (1) is not enough to guarantee interoperability.
Eric
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