----- Original Message ----- From: "Morris, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:16 PM Subject: RE: frozen specification
[snip] > >#4 - Drop the trademarked "XML-RPC" name and start a new standard > >with a new name which encompasses the old standard and yet allows > > for growth and development in the open source community. Imagine > > if Sun never updated Java 1.0! It would have been abandoned > > sooner or later in favor of something else. > > and option #4 sounds more legitimate as time goes on. I have had several set of private discussions on forking XML-RPC over the last two or three years. I don't think it would work. The XML-RPC community is small but just large enough to be viable. A fork would fragment the community leaving the fragments too small to be viable. (a fork would almost certainly produce more than two fragments - everybody agrees the spec is unsatisfactory, this doesn't mean that they agree on what a satisfactory spec would look like). I'd really like to be wrong about this, but you would have to explain to me what set of facts I'm overlooking. John Wilson The Wilson Partnership http://www.wilson.co.uk
