- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:44:26 -0400
- To: Christopher Ferris <chris.ferris@sun.com>
- Cc: wsawg public <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:38:51PM -0400, Christopher Ferris wrote: > D-AC011 > > IBM: Needs to say 'should be consistent with the existing web'. > > We must be careful with absolutes. > As I've commented before, we should not be arbitrarily inconsistent, > nor should we introduce inconsistency without extreme due diligence. > However, we are standardizing a new capability to the web therefore > the 'new' things may be inconsistent with the exisiting simply because > they don't exist today. > > <proposal> > Would adoption of the wording as proposed above be acceptable? > </proposal> It would be unacceptable to me, as our charter requires that our work product "be cleanly integrated in the Web architecture". I don't think it's unreasonable to state that a critical success factor of our work will be that we do what our charter says. MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. distobj@acm.org http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com
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