Re: [idn] Report from the ACE design team

[Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>]

Folks,

At 04:36 PM 6/25/2001, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
>>2) Potential migration problem
>
>I agree with the others who have said that this should not be an issue. If 
>we try to balance with RACE, we must also balance with all the other 
>pre-standard encodings,

The question of whether to support "pre-standards" technology is -- by 
definition -- a question of whether to spend energy on proprietary history.

There are probably some cases where the answer should be yes.  However it 
is difficult to believe that this is one of them.

The only serious argument that gets used for such support is "installed 
base".  That is, a concern that there is such a large installed base of 
users that it is necessary to the success of the standard, that transition 
support be provided.

Without in any way demeaning the pre-standards IDN efforts, it is difficult 
to believe that it can claim that large an installed base or that 
"essential" an installed base.

d/


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