[LINK] Open Data Models

[Kim Holburn]

You know when you say things like this M. Provocateur, I think  
perhaps you're a weird right-wing Elisa or perhaps you're just very  
young.  How old are you exactly?  Really, sometimes you just have no  
clue at all.

I know this will be lost on you and you'll probably make some  
comeback that you and your classmates think is very witty but here it  
is.

A long time ago, probably before you were born, there were a number,  
say around 4 or 5, popular networking systems and protocols.  Almost  
all of them were proprietary and expensive.  The protocol that won  
out was an open, unencumbered system.  Do you understand why?   
Perhaps you should think about it for a while before writing about  
stuff.

Perhaps you could think about why one of the big areas of internet  
growth in the last few years has been B2B communication.  Do you  
understand what that is about?  What use is it to try and communicate  
with another business if you are not talking the same language?

On 2006 Sep 15, at 3:42 PM, the Howard spokesmidget spruked:
> brd at iimetro.com.au [brd at iimetro.com.au] wrote:
>> That's software. I'm talking about data models - data definitions,  
>> entities,
>> relationships etc, for specific industries.
>>
>> In banking, for instance, how do they define a customer? What is the
>> standard
>> data associated with a customer - name, address, accounts, (types and
>> numbers).
>> What data do they hold on an account - transactions, owner, type,
>> restrictions
>> on opening one, who can operate it, get statements etc.?
>
> like a bank is going to give its competitors this kind of information.
>
> I think you are confusing open standards with open suicide.

I think you are just confused.

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