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> To: Roger L. Costello
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> 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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