RE: HTML better for small PDAs

[graham.travers at bt.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lloyd Wood [SMTP:l.wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:38 PM
> To:	graham.travers at bt.com
> Cc:	francis at ECAL.COM; ietf at ietf.org
> Subject:	RE: HTML better for small PDAs
> 
> 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?)
	They're still writing I-Ds.


> > 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?
	I spend a lot of time sitting, and getting other people to write
I-Ds. 

	BTW, I never was on an ISO OSI committee.  Telepathy ?

> thanks,
> 
> L.
> 
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