Re: Peer liveliness

[Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU>]

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Empirical example listed above... :)  Why would anyone expect that everyone
has Microsoft character set support?


Michael states:

"you won't achieve interoperability unless it's mandated that everyone must..."

which is patently false.  Interoperability is achieved when the various
parties agree to communicate with a well defined, well known suite of
interfaces.  Mandating does not carry the weight of implementation.

And private/propriatary extentions hinder/cripple adoption of otherwise good 
ideas. 

I guess this off-topic rant really focuses on two words in Michaels posting:

"You"  should be  "We"
and 
"everyone" should be "implementations"



-- 
--bill

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