- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <clbullar@ingr.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:41:54 -0500
- To: 'Tim Bray' <tbray@textuality.com>, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
- Cc: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>, www-tag@w3.org
No, you stacked the definition. No smart engineer builds networked database systems without some idea of the data types. You redefined portable data to mean interoperable system and that is simply a way to say two systems that understand each other reasonably well can rely on email to work together. That's all. Portable data. Inteoperable systems. A priori agreements about types even if informal. HTML works because it is bloody obvious even to a script kiddie what a <p> is but someone has to tell you what <eventID>0100</eventID> is. len From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com] I'm certainly not arguing that APIs and data models aren't useful and necessary citizens of the software universe. I'm just saying that they do not provide a basis for interoperability in networked information systems. And the evidence is on my side. -Tim
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