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• Subject: Noise-free Complex Systems
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:21:29 -0600

A troll of sorts but with a serious core:

Is this possible:

Can a system or a system of systems be both 
complex and noise free?  What must be true 
of all of the components of the system for 
this to be the case?  By what properties 
can one measure this?  Are there complex 
systems that can not under any circumstances 
be noise free (beyond XML-Dev itself before 
the deconstructionists flame on)?

Why I'm asking:

This is related to Berners-Lee's recent 
post to the TAG list on the requirement 
for equality of 'chunks' of XML regardless 
of the system component handling the 
chunk.  In other words, what is needed 
for any XML part or whole to remain 
invariant across any current or future 
WWW system (the WWW is a system of 
systems)?

We should consider this problem on XML-Dev.

len

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