[mmox] Agree to disagree?

Catherine Pfeffer <cathypfeffer@gmail.com> Thu, 26 February 2009 10:13 UTC

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Subject: [mmox] Agree to disagree?
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Infinity wrote:
> to paraphrase... we think the "XML way" does not buy us anything. we
> respect that other people might have a different preference or set of
> requirements related to XML. but you have to respect that we're not
> going to abandon a key portion of what makes our architecture
> resilient in the face of version slew. so why not just agree to
> disagree about it, allow virtual world deployers make up their own
> minds about which presentation tier to adopt.

Because exchange standards are about agreeing on a common language.

-- 
Cathy