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Yes. That which can't be decided once and for all but
is recurring is negotiated. Protocols rule in the case
of recurring pareto suboptimality. The system is dynamic
and will rebalance itself as necessary.
The early bridge systems seem to survive the longest
according to
http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/~baum/workshop/Not_All_Equal.pdf
and that is interesting. The reinvention of SGML in XML was
successful. Attempts to replace SGML weren't. Augmenting
XML with smaller networks of locally optimal versions of itself
that remain compatible may produce some perturbations to the
equilibrium of the XML membership, but could strengthen the
utility value of the Internet.
Cool. We'll make more money. ;-)
len
From: 'Liam Quin' [mailto:liam@w3.org]
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:10:21PM -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> I suspect the answer will be classes of binaries of which, one
> or two dominate the runway.
It's possible, in which case the next question whether we (W3C) could
(or should) develop a framework and/or best practices guide. A framework
might end up being ways to use HTTP content negotiation, and ways to
parse XML from an HTTP session saved as a local file, to give a wild
example, with the goal that even if a processor couldn't handle a
particular document, at least it'd know why, and maybe could
delegate conversion in a predictable way.
That sort of decision is beyond the mandate of the current
Working Group, but (as Rich pointed out) they are providing
the necessary background information.
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