Re: RE : Re: Federation protocols

Simon Tennant wrote:
> On 12 June 2013 20:38, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak <rysiek@fwioo.pl 
> <mailto:rysiek@fwioo.pl>> wrote:
>
>
>     Again, show me such a de facto standard, please. And until you do,
>     I will
>     voice my opinion we need interoperability. I don't really care if it's
>     interoperability between *instances* or *implementations* as long
>     as it is a
>     (de facto) standard and without a doubt (by a huge margin) *most*
>     of the libre
>     people using this kind of technology use this particular
>     protocol/standard.
>
>
> That's not how successful standardisation works.
>
> At one point the gopher protocol was THE way to access information on 
> the internet.
>
> Then some annoying little upstart at CERN started trying to get people 
> to use his standard for hypertext. And nobody wanted to even have him 
> speak at hypertext conferences. But he kept on working on it and 
> building *real-world* use cases and applications and a software ecosystem.
>
> Others started contributing code to the NCSA browser and httpd.
>
> HTML was successful because someone went and built something that was 
> incompatible with the gopher protocol.
>
> THEN it was standardised.
>
> Bottom up works. Top down gives us standards that only a telco could love.
>
Yup... rough consensus and running code, then the market tends to drive 
what gets adopted.

Miles Fidelman

Received on Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:30:25 UTC