In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Bigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >There's been a lot of traffic on this topic already. Two things I'd >like to emphasize: > >1) I agree that the standards committee should have a chairman, but I > think the committee needs to elect him/her. > >2) We seem to be in danger of falling into the trap of "everything that > any known ABC-related application does has to be included in the > standard." This runs the risks of > > a) making the standard too difficult to interpret and/or implement, > and > > b) adding features to the standard before they've been used widely > enough to figure out if they're actually workable as implemented. > > I'd recommend that in general, we try not to add features to the > standard unless: > > a) there is consensus (or at least an overwhelming majority opinion) > as to what the feature should do, and either > > b) several (or at least a few significant) applications already use > it, or > > c) more than one developer (or group of developers) is planning to > implement (or in the process of implementing) the same feature > >
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