Yet another great article by

Yet another great article by Clay ShirkyInteroperability, Not Standards. The message is that you’ve got to have a play / test / iterate period first before you define standards. This way you can really test alternatives. Otherwise you’re purely in the realm of the philosophical, and we already know that that doesn’t work.Tim Bray on where we are now with the Internet infrastructure: TAXI to the Future. Transform, Aggregate, send XML, Interact.