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Gordon
Weakliem: I work in the travel
industry, and one thing that's happened over the years is that
there's been a number of efforts to create a standard library of
business objects for interchange. Without exception, every one of
those efforts has failed. Now some of that may be due to
complexity, or to competitive pressures, or to hyper-abstraction,
but my belief is that the basic problem is that the philosophy is
flawed... I submit that what we in
the travel industry are and should be exchanging documents...
They're representations of flights,
with partial information. Bingo.