- From: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@scenicsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:43:22 -0800
- To: "'Duane Nickull'" <duane@xmlglobal.com>
- Cc: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@textuality.com>, www-tag@w3.org
> The related architectural document was only 40 pages and tied > together a > series of other specifications. This modular approach enabled (or > should have enabled) a layperson to read each specification and > understand it as a component. Each modular specification also made > normative references to other protocols, themselves governed by > specifications (examples: W3C schema, SOAP, HTTP, MIME). Okay, how about a refined metric: (Size in pages) + (no. of specs dependent upon)X(weighting factor) > > <sigh> It all seems so simple on paper ;-) Well, yeah! Every time. [I wonder if Tim's regretted posting his simple question, yet?]
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