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| Subject: | Re: GISList: Re: Effective Standards |
| Date: |
04/24/2003 05:05:00 PM |
| From: |
Ron Lake |
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Yes we have all been there before and open API's have proven not to be
sufficient in themselves- you still have to describe what you are sending -
moreover we also want data that is referential across networks - otherwise
we will be drowning in conflation for the next thousand years!
R
Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Dimitri Rotow wrote:
> >> Sure it is. Standards take incredibly much longer to establish than
> >> anyone would consider reasonable from a technical point of view.
> >> There is such
> >
> > I'd disagree. Standards that are effective and make sense take off
> > like wildfire - look at the use of mp3's to swap music, for example.
> > On the other hand, I would agree with you that bloated, inefficient
> > standards that make life difficult for users and serve only to
> > protect the commercial interests of legacy vendors do take incredibly
> > much longer to establish.
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> Interesting point, per usual. And an interesting example. In the recent
> era, it might be argued that standards which are accompanied by an open
> source reference implementation take off extremely quickly. Where would
> XML be without the early availability of Expat? Where would MP3 be
> without the ISO reference source code? Provide an open source
> programmatic interface to the standard capabilities you want to provide
> and you are off to the races. I don't care about the Java RMI wire
> protocol language, because I can just call RMI functions. I don't care
> about the Oracle SQL*Net protocol because I can just call C functions.
> If OpenGIS wrote a binary client/server specification that included a
> BSD-licensed reference implementation library it would be immediately
> (a) useful and (b) used. All this hooey about XML/GML being "human
> readable" is irrelevant in the presence of a useable (and implemented)
> API. If you leave the implentation of things solely to vendors they will
> botch it up (accidentally or on purpose), and defeat your aims.
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> | Paul Ramsey
> | Refractions Research
> | Email: pramsey@refractions.net
> | Phone: (250) 885-0632
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