[alicebot-archcomm] The Value of a Standard for AIML

[Kim Sullivan]

> 1.2.4. For authors, every change adds more learning time and increases
> the likelihood that skills learned in one environment won't transfer to
> another.

Some changes are meant to decrease learning time for newcomers, or make
developing more comfortable. Deprecation allows for oldtimers still to use
their knowledge.

> 3.2. NOT MUCH IF:
>
> * its change control process is flawed.
> * it is ambiguous in scope and leaves some matters up to be
> "understood", and everybody seems to be happy with that.

* the process of making a standard doesn't take into account (or at least
notice) all discussions related to it (is related to the change control
process), which then often results in the next point:
* "people" feel that the current standard has some flaws, contains parts
that "could have been thought out more" and the like.

Kim