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RE: [xml-dev] You call that a standard?
- To: 'Dare Obasanjo' <dareo@...>, xml-dev <xml-dev@...>
- Subject: RE: [xml-dev] You call that a standard?
- From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@...>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:49:36 -0500
What if:
1. It is ISO standard (which has a specific meaning)
but created by technical committees from consortia
(not the marketing guys who go to committee meetings
to represent their bosses viewpoint).
2. Is Royalty-free by dint of a signed participation
agreement.
3. Comes with conformance tests and a test mark (a
formal variation of a trade mark).
Would that be 'meaningful'?
len
From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@...]
The word "standard' when it comes to software and computer technology is
usually meaningless. Is something standard if it produced by a standards
body but has no conformance tests (e.g. SQL)? What if it has conformance
testing requirements but is owned by a single entity (e.g. Java)? What if it
is just widely supported with no formal body behind it (e.g. RSS)?
Whenever I hear someone say standard it's as meaningless to me as when I
hear the acronym 'SOA', it means whatever the speaker wants it to mean.
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