DM Smith <dmsm...@crosswire.org> writes: > I'm not sure you're wanting a reply or just wanting to rip on OSIS as > a "standard."
Not at all. Consider: I have a long history in IP communications, whose RFCs are The Definition Of Interoperability. The idea of ambiguity in such a field is virtually anathema. In the long-touted OSI communications stack -- back in the late '80s when there was genuine and serious debate as to whether IP or OSI would win the global battle[*]; cf. _Elements of Networking Style_ -- the existence of mutually- incompatible subsets of available features is a substantial part what made OSI lose against IP, because IP successfully presents what is much more of a strict superset/subset between "MUST" and "MAY" (as those appear in RFCs). So what disturbs me is the idea that The Standard, in whatever field and from wherever it emanates, could have left operational ambiguity in its wake, which is then abandoned to individual implementations to make concrete. This would be a Problem for me. With that said... > I think the ambiguity is in SWORD, not in the standard. I guess I > should have been clearer. Well, that's fine. Er, not in current implementation; rather, meaning insofar as The Standard had something to say about it. What I think you express is that the implementation has not fully implemented The Standard, and addressing that over time toward eventual resolution to The Standard is dandy. I am admittedly a little frightened by the fact that the implementation is still not up to par after N years. We have, after all, discussed a number of different failures of how The Standard doesn't cope well in some area or how Sword's implementation continues in a buggy state; I recall particularly a brief discussion about spaces in genbook keys from about a year ago. I won't sugarcoat that kind of thing; I think that's a Problem all its own. And it's why I don't personally put OSIS to use. --karl [*] After I wrote that paragraph, it occurred to me: I wonder how many people today are not even _aware_ that there was a battle over some years, over what kind of worldwide internetworking should be put to use? _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
