[topicmapmail] Next Steps?

[Murray Altheim]

Miles Thompson wrote:
> Do any of you gurus care to explain what just happened here, to us
> plebs?
> 
> For instance I couldn't work out what URL has this here draft of 'XRI'
> that is referred to, or how it would relate to TM.
> 
> Apologies for being 'one of those'. Thanks
> 
> Miles

Well, if it's any consolation, I'm also "one of those".

Patrick,

Among the myriad of specifications being produced, is it possible to
simply *ignore* this new one? Not everything gets traction, and I
will probably be among greasing the skids so that not everything does.
Unless someone can explain why XRI is truly an improvement.

The world is plenty difficult already without people trying to simplify
it by making it more complicated.

Murray

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Murray Altheim                         http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK                    .

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