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Thoughts from the Shire Geoff Wright A standard for moving surveys between survey One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, packages on various hardware and software platforms One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

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Thoughts from the Shire

Geoff Wright

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A standard for moving surveys between survey packages on various hardware and software platforms One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

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The Ring

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The Ring

Consists of three parts

Classic XML 1.1/1.2 XML 2.0

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The Ring

XML 2.0 contains significant

ptional items

Hierarchical surveys CSV data

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The Ring

Different versions supported by different products

12 Classic
48 XML 1.1/1.2
27 XML 2.0

Only 13 from the 74 registrations support more than one version

10 20 30 40 50 60 XML 2.0 XML 1.1/12 Classic not stated

ne version
ther versions

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The Ring

How does having different versions affect the usefulness
f Triple-S?
Should Triple-S be doing something to improve

interoperability between the different versions?

Does having significant optional features help or hinder

users and implementers?

Is an enhanced standard or improved support more

important?

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Keith Hughes Merlinco Steve Jenkins Snap Surveys Geoff Wright Computable Functions Laurance Gerard Consultant Ed Ross Consultant

The Fellowship

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The Fellowship

Age – 200 years experience, but is this more of a

hindrance than a benefit?

UK based – does the lack of international

representation affect the status of the standard?

Benevolent dictatorship – does being accountable to

no-one help the independence of the standard?

Volunteers – should implementers provide some sort of

financial contribution to the work of Triple-S?

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Council of Elrond

The Ring

– Start work on a new standard that learns from the existing ones – Do some remedial work to reduce the flaws and deficiencies in the existing standard – Make no changes – a standard that keeps changing is no standard at all – Hand the standard over to the implementers and users

The Fellowship

– Create a new Fellowship – Find a way in which more people can contribute – Retain the existing group and way of working – if it ain’t broke ... – Disband the Triple-S Group and go back to the Shire