Standards and XML II

So we need to agree on an “architecture” (such as that shown earlier) and decide where the “sweet spots” are to define standards
- i.e. you do not agree on standards but do try to agree (or guess) what entities will have standards defined for them in the future

Then standards define interfaces to distributed educational `objects (methods and properties)

XML is useful as a flexible way of specifying object interfaces in a convenient user readable way supported by growing number of tools
- Internet Explorer and Communicator 5 renders XML
- Many Java libraries for processing XML

So we need to agree on an “architecture” (such as that shown earlier) and decide where the “sweet spots” are to define standards