I'll concur wrt the generality, flexibility, and power of XML as a data
encoding. Considering comments on the ancestor thread, though, I'll
also observe that the generality and flexibility are Not Your Friends if
situations require encodings to be distinguished. The processing rules
in X.690
I agree with Pekka and Scott. When I was chairing an active working group,
I put significant effort into collecting detailed minutes so as to record
the meeting discussions, not just the results. In response, I often
received positive comments from WG participants (both attendees and
I feared it was some sort of omen on Sunday evening when I arrived at the
Minneapolis airport and found one of the departure gate monitors
superimposed with a Windows error pop-up saying "Windows has detected an IP
addressing conflict". It didn't seem clear who'd be in a position to click
