RE: Core Component Analysis - SWIFT's Comments

[Joaquin Miller <miller@joaquin.net>]

Another true story:

A roadside marketplace in China.  The prospective customer stops to
look over the vendors's wares.  The vendor smiles, nods, and
speaks.

Vendor: "I speak Cantonese, some Hoklo, and a little
Fukienese." 

Prospective Customer: "I speak Shanghainese, Chiuchow, some
Fukienese and a little Northern, but no Cantonese."

<They proceed to do business in Fukienese.>

That is how it is done.

......................

I know the goal is that anyone can start a business transaction with
anyone else.  And it may be too late to add what OSI would call a
(Re)Presentation layer protocol to ebXML.  But if we did, it might
(apparently, from the messages on this list) go something like
this:  

Prospective Customer: "I can read tags in Hindi, Urdu, and some in
English."

Vendor: "I can read tags in English, but not in Foreign."

<They proceed to do business in English.>

Cordially,

Joaquin

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Joaquin Miller

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