Re: The Extensible Web Manifesto [via Extensible Web Community Group]

François,

Tobie Langel [2013-06-12T08:56]:
> "Walled gardens of the standards committees." Really!?
> Gratuitous flaming weakens your overall point. Which is a shame as the work you're doing is critical.

Agreed with Tobie here.

> The second reason an extensible web is more beautiful is that, when APIs are created inside the walled gardens of the standards committees, sometimes mistakes can be made. Mistakes are normal. No process can be  free of mistakes. However, the problem with the current standards process is that it’s slow and irreversible.

And I fail to understand the logic of the sentence itself which has the following propositions:

The proposition: An extensible web is more beautiful
The condition:   APIs are created inside the walled gardens of the standards committees
The explanation: sometimes mistakes can be made.

(?) puzzled.

> No process can be  free of mistakes.

Agreed heartly with that, but we could generalized that to anything. Process or no process. Nothing is free of mistakes.

> However, the problem with the current standards process is that it’s slow and irreversible.

grin. The are two issues expressed here, which are almost unrelated to the current standard process. 

* slow         -> social coordination.
* irreversible -> social distribution + business competition.

PS: I'm still reading the articles related to the extensible Web manifesto to try to understand what is the problem it is trying to solve. I'm not sure I understand it well yet. I have a feeling it looks like a bit like a CISC vs RISC choice. I said to Yehuda and Brian that I will send comments. I'm traveling in the next 24 hours, so later.

-- 
Karl Dubost
http://www.la-grange.net/karl/

Received on Wednesday, 12 June 2013 02:23:50 UTC