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I’d like to point out two important features of this knowledge services architecture that we’ll be relying on throughout this presentation.
The first feature is Aggressive Interoperation (or “A.I.” for short). Aggressive Interoperation means never letting standards, or the lack thereof, get in the way of doing business. If Ingram and HP use different data formats or messaging protocols, then just use a translation service to map them. (If there’s one thing the AI community is good at, it’s mapping between two structured representations). The translation can be performed by the message sender, the recipient, or some third party broker – whoever has the economic incentive. (e.g., if HP is eager for new customers, it can accept orders in any major format and translate into its internal standard). One enduring lesson of the Web is that if a service is economically viable, someone will step forward to provide it.
