On 3/16/06, Eric Newcomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If anyone had the magic formula for getting something > to become a standard, he or she could easily become > rich.
There is a formula, but it's not magic; it's called principled design. It doesn't provide a 100% success rate of course, but my predictions have been pretty good. For example I predicted, years ago, that SOAP and BEEP would not see widespread deployment on the Internet. In fact, the technique is, in practice, better suited to predicting failure than success because it only takes identifying the absence of a single critical architectural constraint for a target environment (e.g. interface constraints on the Internet) to identify a failure (although that's not the only way to fail, of course). Identifying success is necessarily harder because the evaluator needs to understand all the properties of the system and their applicability/suitability for the target environment. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
