Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Scott Little
From : andrew clarke
Date : Sun Nov 10 2002 04:07 pm

Sun 2002-11-10 11:15, Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> I don't think you can, because FTS-5001 has made it a standard. And
 ac>> you can't change standards, only add to them.

 > What about FTS-5000?

 > I'm trying to have both standards replaced with something slightly more 
 > sensible and less crufty.

You can only extend the standard or obsolete it.  That is, unless the ZCs 
decide FTS-5000 isn't really a standard after all, because it's "expired", 
which is unfair to all the developers who wrote software in accordance with 
that spec between the time it became a standard and the time it expired.  (In 
other words, having standards documents expire is a really bad idea!)

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