RE: HTML better for small PDAs

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 graham.travers at bt.com wrote:

> Would you not concede, though, that coders ( should ) write to implement
> requirements, which are typically not defined by the coders themselves, but
> by their "customers" ? 

That's _exactly_ what the ISO OSI committees thought.

> The IETF publishes lots of I-Ds which give
> requirements, rather than coding solutions. The people who write these
> requirements are not necessarily coders themselves.

Anyone can submit an ID. Many do.

Oddly, coding experience is better-reflected in the RFCs and STDs.

 
> In my, limited, coding experience, I don't recall finding ASCII diagrams as
> part of the code.  Poor diagrammatic capability is one of the problems I
> have with ASCII. 

I? (What happened to those ID writers working for you?)


> IMHO, standards are about far more than writing code;  first, and most
> importantly, they are about achieving agreement.

That's _exactly_ what the ISO OSI committees thought.

> Regards,
> 
> Graham Travers
> 
> Applications Standards Strategist

I'm curious. What, exactly, does an ASS do?

thanks,

L.

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