20 May
2009
20 May
'09
1:11 p.m.
still can get consensus that makes sense and not drift off like in an IDL-like thinking where solutions come up that are not interoperable at all...
The 'IDL' approach has been found to be very useful to agree on the data structures in & out and the semantics of an operation without getting bogged down in rendering discussions. Rendering this agreed interface is then found to be very simple. This is exactly the process that has been used in doing the GLUE specification... and that drifting off activity seemed to work out OK! Steven