[sc34wg3] Modularization

[Sam Hunting]

> > <snip>
> >
> > 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?
> 
> Before can talk about brand extension Topic Maps have to become
> a brand at all - let's work on that first!

We are!!!!

But we need to execute in the present *and* build for the future at the
same time. I see Michel as trying to do that; it's constructive.


Sam Hunting
eTopicality, Inc.

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