-----Original Message-----
From: Lloyd Wood [SMTP:l(_dot_)wood(_at_)eim(_dot_)surrey(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:38 PM
To: graham(_dot_)travers(_at_)bt(_dot_)com
Cc: francis(_at_)ECAL(_dot_)COM; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: RE: HTML better for small PDAs
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 graham(_dot_)travers(_at_)bt(_dot_)com wrote:
Would you not concede, though, that coders ( should ) write to implement
requirements, which are typically not defined by the coders themselves,
but
by their "customers" ?
That's _exactly_ what the ISO OSI committees thought.
The IETF publishes lots of I-Ds which give
requirements, rather than coding solutions. The people who write these
requirements are not necessarily coders themselves.
Anyone can submit an ID. Many do.
Oddly, coding experience is better-reflected in the RFCs and STDs.
In my, limited, coding experience, I don't recall finding ASCII diagrams
as
part of the code. Poor diagrammatic capability is one of the problems I
have with ASCII.
I? (What happened to those ID writers working for you?)
They're still writing I-Ds.
IMHO, standards are about far more than writing code; first, and most
importantly, they are about achieving agreement.
That's _exactly_ what the ISO OSI committees thought.
Regards,
Graham Travers
Applications Standards Strategist
I'm curious. What, exactly, does an ASS do?
I spend a lot of time sitting, and getting other people to write
I-Ds.
BTW, I never was on an ISO OSI committee. Telepathy ?
thanks,
L.
<L(_dot_)Wood(_at_)surrey(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>