Re: D-AC011 discussion points and proposal

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
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Received on Tuesday, 21 May 2002 14:36:00 UTC