Re: [tm-pubsubj] Call for vote on new deliverable structure

[Steve Pepper <pepper@ontopia.net>]

At 17:42 14/06/02 +0200, Bernard Vatant wrote:
> > To me it sounds as though the first deliverable will contain very
> > little in the way of real substance ...
>
>Yes, there will be "very little" substance in that first deliverable, and 
>that's exactly
>what we need. The less we have there, the better we are, because it will 
>show that making
>a PSI is very simple if you want to just meet requirements, and that 
>requirements are very
>few for PSIs to start to work. All the rest : format, structure, metadata, 
>management, use
>... is optimization, and I consider now it should stay at the level of 
>recommendations and
>best practices, with no requirements in it.

Hear, hear! These were exactly the sentiments that motivated me to go back 
to "first principles" during the meeting in Barcelona. The basic stuff 
doesn't have to be complicated, and it's important that we get that fact 
across, very clearly.

Steve

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