OK, somebody has to say it. Maybe we should have another state,
something like draft standard.
[ sob alluded to a private message from me which said ]
while i really like the idea of pushing well-tested interoperable
documents to full standards, i think tested interop is key here.
hence i liked the old interop tests for ds and am not all that happy
to see it go (yes, i whined privately to russ).
our protocols are rarely based on any testable formalism, computer
science, mathematics, ... we live on a pile of crap hacks. interop
is about all that keeps us from entropic degeneration.
randy