From: Seth Breidbart (sethb@panix.com)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 16:42:28 CDT
> "Perfect workd" has nothing to do with this. We design a standard assuming
> that software that is interested in following it will do so, and if
> software chooses not to, it is not our problem.
We (well, some of us) do so aware that there is existing software, and
if our standard tells too much of it "you're wrong" without good
reason, the software will win. That will cause more of our standard
to be ignored than if we accepted reality in the existing software.
Seth