DALServer V0.1 information (SSAP, DAL)

[Patrick Dowler]

On Friday 26 January 2007 03:52, Pedro Osuna wrote:
> we have received your mail with some surprise.
...
> I think this efforts should be better coordinated in the future to avoid
> unnecessary reduplication of work. This is specially relevant for the
> already ongoing evolution of the SSAP protocol, in which many of us have
> been working since long ago.

In my opinion, the requirement for two working implementations of a service 
before PR should mean that at least two people actually wrote software that 
complies with the spec - rather than one piece of software and a couple of 
deployments. So I think it is a good thing that multiple groups interpret the 
spec and write code according to their understanding; that's the only way to 
test the spec.

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Patrick Dowler
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