PWG Mail Archive: Re: PWG> PWG OID Structure Proposals [the case for a flat structure]

Re: PWG> PWG OID Structure Proposals [the case for a flat structure]

Jay Martin (jkm@underscore.com)
Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:09:47 -0500

Tom Hastings said:

> 4. I have lived through two corporations attempting to set up structure:
> Digital and Xerox. In both cases, none of the rest of the structure
> got used. Its too hard to predict the future. So defining structure
> is a waste of time and does not help anything.

I wish your observations would be equally applied to the development
of protocol standards, too. Too much up-front complexity helps very
few people, and usually causes serious delays in deployment of the
final standard within products.

...jay

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