And so the counting of angels has begun (or continued). Eliot
On 7/30/09 4:34 PM, RJ Atkinson wrote: > > On 30 Jul 2009, at 09:54, Eliot Lear wrote: >> On 7/30/09 3:24 PM, RJ Atkinson wrote: >>> >>> On 30 Jul 2009, at 02:40, Scott Brim wrote: >>>> I just wonder if they all should be solved with the same mechanism. >>> >>> I suggested that we needed an architecture that supports the >>> broad range of issues before the RG. Eliot sought an example, >>> so I provided *an example*. >>> >>> Now you and Eliot have both gotten bogged down in the example, >>> and discussion of architecture seems gone from the thread. >> >> I raised engineering constraints that we need to consider when designing >> a system, and by no means all of them. Determining the point at which >> that crosses to architecture should occur directly after we've counted >> the number of angels on a pin. > > No. You saw it yourself. As soon as the phrase "engineering > constraints" appears, one has left architecture behind and crossed over > into engineering. > > Mind, it is very important to get the engineering right. The Internet > community keeps learning the hard way that it is also very important > to sort out the architecture BEFORE crossing over into engineering. > > This is the kind of thing that jnc and some others of us have been > saying for a few years now on this list, so it is neither a new thought > nor uniquely mine. > > Yours, > > Ran > > _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
