Re: Engineering our way out of a brown paper bag [Re: Consensus based on reading tea leaves]

2006-01-08 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jan 8, 2006, at 2:24 AM, Yaakov Stein wrote: I'd suggest requiring that the image format be GIF, since it's simple, stable, well documented, widely supported in both freeware and commercial software, and the patents have expired. Actually that is not quite right YET. There are patents

RE: Engineering our way out of a brown paper bag [Re: Consensus based on reading tea leaves]

2006-01-07 Thread Yaakov Stein
I'd suggest requiring that the image format be GIF, since it's simple, stable, well documented, widely supported in both freeware and commercial software, and the patents have expired. Actually that is not quite right YET. There are patents relating to the compression used in GIF that only

Engineering our way out of a brown paper bag [Re: Consensus based on reading tea leaves]

2006-01-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On mandag, januar 02, 2006 18:10:15 +0200 Yaakov Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I am sure about is that consensus on this list is for keeping everything exactly as it is. I'm pretty sure there's no such consensus. I do, however, see a

Re: Engineering our way out of a brown paper bag [Re: Consensus based on reading tea leaves]

2006-01-05 Thread Ralph Droms
Brian - you've hit on an important point here. It strikes me that the process for defining our own document standards has no fundamental differences from the process for defining any other standard. Why shouldn't this archival document standard be developed and adopted as a Standard in the same

Re: Engineering our way out of a brown paper bag [Re: Consensus based on reading tea leaves]

2006-01-05 Thread Stewart Bryant
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On mandag, januar 02, 2006 18:10:15 +0200 Yaakov Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I am sure about is that consensus on this list is for keeping everything exactly as it is. I'm pretty sure there's no such