Comments on: 1.6 Follow Standards http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/good-apis-jisc A JISC project looking at good practice for provision of and consuming APIs Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:46:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: PeteJ http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/good-apis-jisc/good-practice-for-provision-of-apis/16-follow-standards/#comment-33 PeteJ Mon, 18 May 2009 10:17:13 +0000 http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/good-apis-jisc/?page_id=129#comment-33 I find the second paragraph above very confusing. It might be read as suggesting that a standard can be ignored if I happen to find it “difficult to interpret”, which is surely not the sort of advice we should be offering?

I also think the (implied) opposition between “innovation” and “standards” needs qualification: much (most? all?) “innovative” development makes extensive use of “standards”.

It seems to me the key issue here is, as I noted in my comment on the introduction, understanding the context within which one is operating, the contexts for which particular standards were designed and/or are applicable/appropriate, and on that basis making informed decisions about the deployment of those standards.

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