- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:06:07 +0100
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>
- Cc: public-sw-meaning@w3.org
At 22:18 09/10/03 -0400, Sandro Hawke wrote: >> > If you don't >> > like it, communicate with your partners. You're free to say, "That way >> > of saying this irritates me. I'm avoiding that" >Negotiating with partners doesn't scale. That's why we have >standards. Um, the trouble is, I think, that not negotiating with partners doesn't scale either. Beyond 1. In this respect, standards can magnify the effects of negotiation -- the scope of some consent -- but not create such effects in the first place. I also note that standards themselves are the result of a negotiation. My point? I reject the implication that we can disregard negotiation because we have standards. #g -- [1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Fractal.html (Seems relevant, but I'm not sure exactly how.) ------------ Graham Klyne GK@NineByNine.org
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