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Subject: Re: [xcbf] Discussion document on XCBF spec






Me too. I agree with Ed.

Best regards,
Tyky


                                                                                                                                
                      Bancroft Scott                                                                                            
                      <baos@oss.com>           To:       Ed Day <eday@obj-sys.com>                                              
                                               cc:       xcbf <xcbf@lists.oasis-open.org>                                       
                      05/05/2003 12:42         Subject:  Re: [xcbf] Discussion document on XCBF spec                            
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On Mon, 5 May 2003, Ed Day wrote:

> I think given this late date that changes should be kept to a minimum.
> What is there has already been approved for the most part.  Only a few
> tweaks describing how the Base64 encoding is to be accomplished should
> be necessary.  I think any big changes need to be deferred to the next
> version.

I agree with Ed.

Bancroft

> Regards,
>
> Ed Day
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Larmouth" <j.larmouth@salford.ac.uk>
> To: <j.larmouth@salford.ac.uk>
> Cc: "xcbf" <xcbf@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 4:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [xcbf] Discussion document on XCBF spec
>
>
> > To reply to my own message:
> >
> > John Larmouth wrote:
> >
> > > I understand that you should be getting notification of that upload
> > > automatically, but it has not come back to *me* yet.
> >
> > It still has not come (but I understand that others have got it).
Maybe
> > the person posting the document does not get the noticiation?  But this
> > is not the first time that OASIS mailings have taken a couple of days
to
> > reach me when others have got them (don't know why - guess the server
is
> > anti-English!).
> >
> > > (There is no formal mechanism - even with Amendment 1 in place - to
> > > formally forbid a HEX encoding.  You can allow a BASE64 encoding as
an
> > > encoder's option, but you cannot express formally that you require
> > > (only) that to be used instead of HEX.
> >
> > I got this wrong - getting too old!  The BASE64 encoding instruction
> > *does* prohibit use of HEX (otherwise we would have ambiguous
> > encodings), but it does NOT mandate BASE64 - use of XML mark-up for the
> > contents is still allowed as an encoders option.
> >
> > Sorry for the wrong information.
> >
> > (I don't think this affects the main discussion on what we want for
XCBF.)
> >
> > John L
> >
>
>






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