On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:57:00AM +0800, Selena Sol wrote:
> It is the standardization across organizations that is so important.
This is just a recurring theme that is resurrected every time there
is a new interop technology. Sure, standards adoption is important.
That doesn't mean that New Standard X(tm) will be adopted simply because
standards adoption is important.
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You may remember the "standardization across organizations" mantra
from other such memorable standards as "Java Java Java", XLink,
XPointer, XML Schema, XML Query, RDF, RDF Schema, XML Topic Maps,
and, yes, even the tried-and-true savior of the planet -- XML!
</troy_mclure>
The last interop of any importance that was truly standardized
across organizations as far as I can remember is TCP/IP. I suppose
you could make a similar case for software packaging tools like
RPM, dpkg and even freshports, but that's an example of a trivial
(but annoying) problem.
I agree with Chris' point that the Web will continue to be the Web
as we know it. Over time, there will be new and interesting wrinkles
to the web, including such things as web services.
Z.
