- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:23:22 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Dan Brickley wrote: > > > > If Charlie wants to work with Alice's site, he should agree with Alice > > about what vocabularies they're going to use, and then only use that. > > Are you suggesting pairwise contracts between producers and consumers of > HTML-embedded structured data? How would you suggest we structure and > document these agreements? The same way we structure the agreements that people make now when agreeing to use HTTP, HTML, Unicode, MathML, SVG, hCard, hCalendar, custom class name sets for a set of sites in a company, a group of custom rel values in a community, or whatever. There's lots of precedent in human history for people coming together and agreeing on common conventions. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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