[Mailman-Developers] Way into the future -- XML and Mailman?

[Chuq Von Rospach]

Have folks seen Jon Udell's piece on XML?

<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/10/28/ 
021028plxmlclient.xml>

Some fascinating stuff in there. and I think in large part he's right.

But it's got me wondering, in a very blue-sky kind of way, how a move  
to XML as a content model for e-mail and general data transfers is  
going to impact mailing list systems like mailman. how would a  
transition be handled?

I don't have a clue. It's something to be looked at for maybe Mailman  
5.0 or whatever, some forever into the future (where, in tech time,  
forever is > 18 months).

But maybe it's soemthing folks ought to gnaw on a bit, just to start  
thinking the issue over...

What if the future of email isn't HTML or style text (per se), but a  
mime-encoded XML piece? How does that affect list servers? do they  
mutate into specialized versions of a jabber server?


-- 
Chuq Von Rospach, Architech
chuqui@plaidworks.com -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/

Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh
nervously and change the subject.