Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To : andrew clarke
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Nov 10 2002 01:58 am
ac>>> I don't think you can, because FTS-5001 has made it
ac>>> a standard. And you can't change standards, only add
ac>>> to them.
>> What about FTS-5000?
>> I'm trying to have both standards replaced with something
>> slightly more sensible and less crufty.
ac> You can only extend the standard or obsolete it. That is,
ac> unless the ZCs decide FTS-5000 isn't really a standard after
ac> all, because it's "expired", which is unfair to all the
ac> developers who wrote software in accordance with that spec
ac> between the time it became a standard and the time it expired.
ac> (In other words, having standards documents expire is a
ac> really bad idea!)
the reason the present/last FTSC decided to put in expiration dates was to
force them to revisit the expiring standard and to update it or whatever was
needed before it expired... this was supposed to keep the FTSC alive and also
to ensure that we had current and up to date standards to work from...
