Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!nuug!ifi!enag From: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media Subject: Re: Multi-media mail standards; Forw: Use of ODA in the Internet Message-ID: Date: 28 Jul 90 16:38:58 GMT References: <1242.649050446@nma.com> Sender: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: stef@NRTC.NORTHROP.COM's message of 27 Jul 90 03:47:26 GMT Originator: enag@slembe.ifi.uio.no Nntp-Posting-Host: slembe.ifi.uio.no Lines: I would be pleased if the references to SGML and ISO were done properly. SGML is not "Standardised Generalised Mark-up Language", but "Standard Generalized Markup Language", at least according the copy I have. It also says ISO is the International Organization for Standardization not "International Standards Organisation". Personal opinion: I hope that we will never see application-level binary interchange formats on the Internet. Editability with a variety of tools, not just some random and closed-minded specific application tool is a must for soi disant "open systems". They are closed if they are not user extensible. They are closed if they depend on a particular version of a particular protocol specification. They are closed if users cannot understand them. We are again moving towards the "white robes" of super-technicians who have the questionable skill to decode a broken ODA bit stream. "Open" to me also means I can look inside. Well, I won't go rambling on about this. -- [Erik Naggum] Gaustadalleen 21 +47-256-7822 N-0371 OSLO; NORWAY +47-260-4427 (fax)