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I can see it might be a good idea, but first I
have to do my christmas shopping...
Quoting 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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