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Re: Multi-media mail standards; Forw: Use of ODA in the Internet

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From: Erik Naggum
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 1990 16:38
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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.
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