RE: Last Call: Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps to Propo sed Standard

["Dawson Frank (NMP/Irving)" <Frank.Dawson at nokia.com>]

"One size fits all"? This isn't about haberdashery.

The point of a standard format is exactly that there needs to be a
single precise format. If you are going to use an Internet date/time
standard, then it ought to be same or at least an isomer (ie, iCalendar
date/time format).

Especially, when it comes to basic data types like date/time.

-- Frank

> Perhaps, but the point I was trying to make isn't about the
> W3C ignoring
> IETF work or vice-versa.  A "one size fits all" specification
> isn't likely
> to meet everyone's needs, and the situation with 2445 and XML
> Schema is just
> one example of a situation where the given size didn't fit
> someone for some
> reason.  The point I was trying to make is that the
> timestamps document
> seems to provide a reasonable compromise between being too
> restrictive and
> too permissive.