RE: Re: [xml-dev] The Rule of Least Power - does it miss the point?

["Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <len.bullard@intergraph.com>]

Oh.. almost forgot.

To determine when to apply the Rule of Least Power 
determine when maximum reuse/indexability of the data is 
legitimate.   

*Legitimacy* is a key concept.  See Aldo de Moor's writings.

Pragmatics.

len

Legitimacy: the concept that economic systems derive their strength from social systems and that any systems designed to support economic goals must account for legitimacy in their design or they will erode the ability to attain economic goals using the system.  Sometimes viewed as a doctrine of fairness or a philosophy of justice, experience with large distributed systems such as the World Wide Web are providing evidence that this concept is correct.   A system that scales up quickly and attains reach is very difficult to fix after the fact.  As quoted by de Moor et al, "if the original Internet architecture had included a public/private data field, authors could have chosen to give or keep copy rights, and browsers could respect that choice (Lau, Etzioni, & Weld, 1999)"