Re: [topicmaps-comment] back to the lists

[Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>]

Thomas Bandholtz wrote:

> Karl Best had a very generic talk at the Open Forum (not yet on-line
today).
> He did not mention TM at all. But he was presenting a new
cross-organization
> standards registry initiative (kind of extended xml.org - his slides will
be
> on-line soon ...), and there was a slide showing something that looked
like
> a topic map. Why didn't he propose it to be one? Diplomacy? Or doesn't he
> take us as a serious option? (see the related OASIS RFP at
> http://www.oasis-open.org/documents/registry_rfp.pdf).

As one of those who took part in the standards registry initiative I can
assure you that the people involved were not technically oriented, and it
was difficult enough to get them to think in terms of metadata without
worrying about trying to get them to use topic maps. They will not even
agree to a standardized API to connect registries :-(

Martin Bryan