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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nick Kew wrote: > On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Theo Zourzouvillys wrote > > I hate to say this, but the biggest and best ally we could have in > making this happen is in Redmond. But I suspect they'd be on-side > for the principle of this, though the cost would be doing it on > their terms. With a declared plicy of embrace and extend you think it would work, I was thinking free reference implementation, and methods to close out unagreed extensions. Perhaps it would need it's own extension language that mandates a certain level of standard compliance. The "obvious" choice, at least to illustrate the principal is Java handlers, where we could establish that the handler for a new format was correct and portable. So if Doc Midgeley send me some obscure three dimensional medical scan showing me I've been sitting front of a computer too long, I can use the viewer, and trust it to work okay (sorry signed code is no substitute for a security manager). Although done too aggressively you risk making a system that has built-in obselescent, i.e. the harder you make it to extend in non-portable fashion the harder it is to extend - period. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+RVMxGFXfHI9FVgYRAgXOAJ9ITWTKaXmEtg19+MarYQfQ2SSSUwCfYa6a v7G1WUHTZuHdOqSMsyvb3XM= =Rjol -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.