Possible ways to work together
We have a common goal: An usable information infrastructure.
- Work in parallel
- Confuses the marketplace
- Requires no changes
- One works, the other references
- Workable when impact on other is low
- Both orgs can use external specifications by reference
- Requires purging
- One works, the other publishes
- Has been done before (RARE RTRs, PNG)
- Change control must be in one place
- One works, the other facilitates
- Requires high degree of common goals
- Helper must submit to owner's procedure
- Requires explicit coordination
A solution that requires a partner to do violence to its
own nature is not a viable solution
Harald T. Alvestrand
Last modified: Mon Jan 13 13:01:35 1997