On 4 Mar 2005, at 11:21 pm, Danny Ayers wrote:
Try asking again in a year or so's time, when we have an audio extension defined by Microsoft for Microsoft applications, a threading extension defined by Google for Google applications and a video extension defined by Yahoo for Yahoo applications. Case-by-case will favour those with the weight to ensure enough deployment to bootstrap general adoption. The long term network-effect driven gains of interop are outweighed by the short-term competitive advantage of features. Proprietary Atom solutions here we come!
I suggest we set up a panel to assess new extensions. They will solicit bids from all the major vendors for threading, video, audio etc and the best in each category will be chosen. If a vendor chooses to use there own extension over the one we choose for them, they will have just 48 hours until bombing commences.
Graham
