[sc34wg3] Modularization

[Sam Hunting]

> The SAM is describing the way currently available applications work,
> or should be working. TMCL and TMQL will add extra layers on those types of
> applications. This is fine, but this is only a given universe. This
> universe is interesting, but it's not the only one there is. I want
> to leave room open for defining other kinds of applications. Some of
> them I don't know them now. But I know for a fact that we can't possibly
> have thought of every type of application past, present or future that
> will have some relation with what we call topic maps.
> 

In the marketing world, this called brand extension and companies that
want to survive figure out how to do it. (Granted, the topic community
is not a compamy.) 

If we can make our standards work as Michel suggests -- become platforms
for topic map brand extension -- won't we all be better off?

Sam Hunting
eTopicality, Inc.

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