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Standardizing meaning localizes. That's all. As the semioticians put it, create or discover an interpretive community ontologically committed to a validatible interpretation. This isn't difficult to understand and only tedious to achieve. Syntax is the easiest agreement to get. People care the least about it. Successful standards are quite often agreements about things people could care less about. So by following the 80/20 rule and Dare To Do Less, the first order of business is to raise the priority of trivia. That thing about hats.... len From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] Syntax standardization also seems to embolden people to go out and standardize meanings and processing, which brings them right into the weeds.
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