Larry,
LS> Basically, I can't believe the schedule on this thing. And since a high %
of the
LS> discussion is always off thepoint or outside the formal agenda, there won't
be all that
LS> much discussion going into this very important standard.
My view is that the schedule was set with a very good understanding of
the implications in being so aggressive.
People do aggressive, successful projects all the time and that includes
many of the folks involved in Marid.
What is essential in meeting such dates with anything useful is reducing
the scope of the effort and making choices that are easy to understand
and that seem very likely to do something useful.
Of course "something useful" can be far more modest than "solve the
entire problem". But I lie. "Can be" is wrong. "Must be" is right.
Small, incremental steps are often a way to solve a large, complicated
problem. The difference between such steps and "experiments" depends on
the nature of the steps. If the steps are small and straightforward
enough to be easy to understand, and seem likely to do _something_
useful, then the only thing "experimental" about the step is how much it
will help solve the larger problem.
At worst, you are left with a new capability that has some utility.
d/
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