- From: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:55:05 +0000
- To: ian@hixie.ch
- Cc: distobj@acm.org, public-html@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Mark Baker wrote: > > > Can anybody name a long deployed system whose constituent > protocols were > > specified as a monolith? I can't. > > The United States of America. > http://uscode.house.gov/ Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the US constitution consist of seven separate articles, with very little overlap; plus the bill of rights, again with little overlap with the original seven, added a few years later? And a number of smaller amendments over the years. That seems to be very much what is being proposed by splitting the current HTML5 spec: several specifications covering different areas of responsibility, with as little overlap as possible, but worked on by mostly a single team to ensure a coherent result; with the possibility for additions a few years later; and structured in a manner so that one spec may be amended without the others needing a rewrite. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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