"David A. Wheeler" <>
wrote on 03/13/2006 01:30:37 PM:
> I think the final FORMAL standard should NOT contain much (if any)
> comments on
> specific implementations. A small non-normative section about them
> would, I think, be fine,
> but not a lot, and certainly not a lot interspersed throughout the
document.
>
> Yet if we want to finish this year, I think we NEED to include a lot
of
> information about
> real implementations throughout the document. Otherwise, we'll spend
all
> our time repeating to each other why things were done in a certain
way,
> instead
> of getting things actually done.
That's fine. I agree it is good to have this
in the draft to remind us why we made the choices we did. I just
wanted some assurance that the final version, which is supposed to be application
neutral, would not have a large number of references (even non-normative
ones) to specific applications. If only we had full meta data support
today! That would solve this wonderfully. Using style templates
as you mention would work as well.
-Rob
