On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Roy Tennant wrote:
> The recent discussion on DC Resource Types has been *very* interesting to
> me, and also instructive on how difficult it is to slouch toward
> consensus. Therefore I have become of two minds, along the lines that you
> have experienced already. That is, I have now divided my original
> proposal into two:
I like this, especially the fact that the Structuralist approach just
happens to be a superset of the minimalist approach and so you can
probably have both in use on the Net at the same time. Cool. The only
thing that grated slightly for me was text.advertisement vs. text.media;
how can one determine between an advertisement and "information to promote
a product, service, or organization"? I think a possible solution to this
is to either rename text.media to text.press-release and therefore make it
explicit that only press releases fit in there, or else merge the two into
a single type called text.promotion.
Another gotcha that might be worth considering is the difference between
environment.games and environment.vr; I reckon in the future its going to
be increasingly difficult to distinguish many games from VR stuff
(especially as immersive games appear on the Net - I know of several
companies in England working on that right now). This is probably
something that we shouldn't tear too much hair out over however as these
distinctions will hopefully fall out in the wash as people start to use DC
and resource types.
Good stuff.
Tatty bye,
Jim'll
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