* Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-21 18:50]: > Does it have to be just one? Now and forever?
It doesn’t have to be *just* one, but it needs to be *at least* one, and specifically at least one that *everyone* supports, so that you can count on having a way to make an emitter and consumer understand each other. The question that arises is that since everyone has to support that particular format, how much value do we gain from letting people use other ones? Personally I am not sufficiently convinced that allowing for more than one format will turn out to be harmful that I would argue against it, but I am also quite unconvinced of the value, and I do know that this flexibility will incur costs. So I am inclined to say that it should probably be just one format, now and forever. (If worst comes to worst we still have the very-last-resort option of revving TAP.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
