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> -----Original Message----- > From: david.lyon@c... > [mailto:david.lyon@c...] > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:09 PM > To: Roger L. Costello > Cc: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: A Systematic Approach to using Simple > XML Vocabularies to Implement Large (Complex) Systems > > > > Yesterday Len and Peter outlined two strategies. I would like to > > flesh out their ideas. ....... Imagine that a large system > requires an > > Invoice XML vocabulary for a Book purchase. > > > What do you (xml-dev'ers) think about all this? Can you think of > > other approaches? /Roger > > Interesting application.. > > In a truly large scale system, like an industrial city, you > would have tens of thousands of open connections organised > into some sort grid arrangement. > > What we tend to do now is insist on one connection per > machine at the client side and many connections at the server side. > > It's purely historical.. been there many times. The manager > of the IT department says "We will have thousands of > connections (to our clients) - but they will only have one to us". > > So everybody keeps writing what the boss of in the big > company wants.. not what is technically possible or what is > really needed. > > There are tens of thousands of small/medium sized enterprises > that eagerly await software to break ranks and have this > multi-to-multi communication capability. > > but reorganising the internet so that it can achieve it's > next degree of interoperation is something that can't be > controlled by governments or academic institutions. > > I remember I suggested one time on this list that xml move to > version 2 and was told I couldn't contribute because I wasn't > in the W3C. Then surprise, xml moved to 1.1. [JMC] That's because they were giving you more time to join before they advanced the version to 2.0*. *which they did not of course, just an attempt at a subtle joke Kind Regards, Joseph Chiusano Booz Allen Hamilton Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World > Goes to show.. some ideas work because they are forced... > some work simply because it is their time. > > DL - crackpots anonymous > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org > <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > >
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