[SCL] Re: Common Logic status with respect to standards

[pat hayes]

>pat hayes wrote:
>[...]
>>I have already suggested a quick breakdown of the work that needs 
>>to be done and by whom. Murray, for one, seems to be taking up the 
>>challenge. I hope to have my piece done by mid-week, but other work 
>>is pressing.
>
>Pat,
>
>I don't write this to suggest I'm backing out, but only that I've
>not backed in yet.

:-)

>I feel I don't yet understand exactly what will
>be required of the syntax, and I simply won't jump into this project
>until I do. I really hate being the arbiter of a design that's not
>mine to design, especially when it's not a domain I feel all that
>comfortable with. But I'm willing to try. I think Chris and I will
>perhaps be able to work out something once he has his draft available.

Look, sorry if Ive sounded a bit bombastic lately.  I think there are 
two things here. We need a vanilla XMl syntax in the short term: 
maybe he DTD we have is enough for this. We also *will* need a much 
more ambitious XML language suitable for Web use. I have every 
confidence that we can find a way to use your undoubted expertise in 
designing this: in fact, I see it as being your design  with the rest 
of us making side comments and giviing occasional advice, maybe 
reining in your enthusiasms now and again ;-). And I take your point 
that we don't yet have a decent spec for this, so lets give up trying 
to get it done by the 17th

>
>I also must note that you're catching me at about the worst time,
>between now and the first week or so of December, as I'm trying to
>finish up a first release of my own project's software as part of
>my Ph.D., and this will take higher priority. In fact, if my advisors
>knew I was even considering volunteer work on SCL, they'd boil me in
>oil.

I wont tell a soul. BUt I agree it is hard to think of a worse time 
to be in a rush.

>
>To that effect, do the SCL and XCL (or whatever it's called in the
>end) deliverables have the same schedule?

Lets say no, as long as that doesn't lose you altogether.

Pat


>
>Murray
>
>......................................................................
>Murray Altheim                    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
>Knowledge Media Institute
>The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK               .
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