Re Standards

[Andrew Lawrence]

thinking of any particular working group Tony ?? !!???

  andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Linde [mailto:Tony.Linde at leicester.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 16:32
> To: 'Interop IVOA'
> Subject: Re Standards
> 
> 
> Just came across an interesting comment from Tim O'Reilly:
>   "I remember bringing Fred Baker, the chair of the IETF, to 
> the second open
> source summit, and asking him what advice he could give to 
> the Open source
> community, and it was essentially what you said above: 
> standardize as little
> as possible, just enough to ensure interoperability."
>  (bottom of
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/wh
at-is-web-20.h
tml?page=5)

Happy New Year to all in IVOA.

All the best,
Tony. 

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