[Eug-lug] Marbux's Interoperable Spec

[Allen Brown]

I have changed the subject line to a descriptive, and non-partisan
phrase.  And only retained the last paragraph of the email this
was extracted from.

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 > With that introduction, I present for your consideration "The universally
 > accessible and interoperable specification v. 0.01. <
 > http://www.universal-interop-council.org/specification>.
 > Please spare no punches and try to kick holes in it.
 >
 > Best regards,
 > Marbux

It's tough reading.  I can only read a few minutes at a time
before my eyes glaze over.  And I haven't finished.  But I
don't think I will be able to consider the big picture when
I do finish, because of the aforementioned glazing.

I think the problem of determining whether a program or dataset
is conforming is difficult, and I don't know if you defined this.
But it seems to me that in a practical sense only a parser
can say if a dataset is conforming.  How would you address
this?
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