On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Weibel,Stu wrote:
> In related developments, NISO has approached us about standardizing the
> DC, and I'm of the opinion this would be a strong asset for our
> community. While NISO is a national standards organization, rather than
> an international one, it is a reasonable place to get our feet wet in
> the formal standardization process.
Before DC is formally standardised, shouldn't we have some more extensive
deployment and interoperability testing first? I'm from the old IETF
school of "running code and rough consensus" rather than the old ISO
"standardise then think about implementing". No point in going through
the formal standards process with something that we later find to be full
of holes (not that I think DC is you understand). At least wait until the
Helsinki break out groups all report back with the various details and see
how the whole thing hangs together before passing the DC to NISO, or any
other standards body, for consideration.
Tatty bye,
Jim'll
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