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Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Thu, 02 August 2012 16:31 UTC

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hi robert

> Does anyone have a good reason why any new protocol definition or 
> enhancement does not have a build in mandatory "XML schema" section 
> which would allow to actually use such standards based enhancement in 
> vendor agnostic way ?

xml is just a way to package the incompatibilities.  just as mime is a
way to codify incompatibility.

randy

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