RE: [xml-dev] A Systematic Approach to using Simple XML Vocabularies to Implement Large (Complex) Systems

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: david.lyon@computergrid.net 
> [mailto:david.lyon@computergrid.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:09 PM
> To: Roger L. Costello
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] A Systematic Approach to using Simple 
> XML Vocabularies to Implement Large (Complex) Systems
> 
> 
> > Yesterday Len and Peter outlined two strategies.  I would like to 
> > flesh out their ideas. ....... Imagine that a large system 
> requires an 
> > Invoice XML vocabulary for a Book purchase.
> 
> > What do you (xml-dev'ers) think about all this?  Can you think of 
> > other approaches?  /Roger
> 
> Interesting application..
> 
> In a truly large scale system, like an industrial city, you 
> would have tens of thousands of open connections organised 
> into some sort grid arrangement.
> 
> What we tend to do now is insist on one connection per 
> machine at the client side and many connections at the server side.
> 
> It's purely historical.. been there many times. The manager 
> of the IT department says "We will have thousands of 
> connections (to our clients) - but they will only have one to us".
> 
> So everybody keeps writing what the boss of in the big 
> company wants.. not what is technically possible or what is 
> really needed.
> 
> There are tens of thousands of small/medium sized enterprises 
> that eagerly await software to break ranks and have this 
> multi-to-multi communication capability.
> 
> but reorganising the internet so that it can achieve it's 
> next degree of interoperation is something that can't be 
> controlled by governments or academic institutions.
> 
> I remember I suggested one time on this list that xml move to 
> version 2 and was told I couldn't contribute because I wasn't 
> in the W3C. Then surprise, xml moved to 1.1.

[JMC] That's because they were giving you more time to join before they
advanced the version to 2.0*.

*which they did not of course, just an attempt at a subtle joke

Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World
 
> Goes to show.. some ideas work because they are forced... 
> some work simply because it is their time.
> 
> DL - crackpots anonymous
> 
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