Re: Size of the Spec Was:Re: Beyond 1.1
Martin Hamilton (martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk)
Sat, 10 Aug 1996 08:29:19 +0100
jg@zorch.w3.org writes:
| 2) are the sections actually separable. The current document
| has many "see section xx.xx" cross references; I'm not sure
| such a spit is realistic, though I haven't examined it carefully.
| My gut reaction it is that it is not...
"See [document y]" perhaps ? From the progress I've made so far (sorry
- a week late already, sigh), this spl?it certainly seems to be more
practical than the implementation/specification one. Not surprising
when you consider its origins ?
One possible advantage of splitting up would be that you could actually
revise (obsolete? supercede?) individual bits without having to re-do
the whole damn thing whenever you want to change part of it. If you
really are only revising just one aspect (e.g. cache-control features),
you can have an effort which is focused on the problem, as opposed to a
free-for-all on what features/changes people would like to see in the
protocol ?
I suppose this approach has been taken with DNS, SMTP and PPP, to name
but three. Successfully ? Hmm...
Martin