Comments on MW4D tools page

The first thing that needs to be done is to explain what a tool is, I think. And why we're interested in tools more than the services using them.

The same goes for some table row headings. The name 'category' is indeed misleading and it's not clear if 'transport layer' shouldn't be renamed 'channel' to match the roadmap. Perhaps those definitions should exist throughout all the documents produced by this group.

It seems to make sense to primarily subdivide the criteria into "criteria specific to organisations using or deploying the tools" and "criteria specific to end-users" but looking the criteria themselves it's not obvious which they apply to: 'category' for instance. It impacts end users as much as organisations.
Also: 'audience', 'end-user training', and others: some can be both end-user and organisation, others none. So in fact I think it's a false dichotomy and shouldn't be used as a top-level subdivision. 

Since I don't really see an alternative main subdivision, I would suggest staying with one table of all the criteria, and for each, specify if they apply to users, organisations, or both.

Max. 

Received on Friday, 10 September 2010 15:43:35 UTC