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interoperability
- Oct 6, 2026 Mapping ARIA Roles onto Platform Accessibility APIs How a role token becomes an MSAA role, an AXRole, or an AT-SPI role, which properties carry states, and where the mappings diverge. accessibility
- Dec 8, 2025 Open Standards and Implementability: The Two Definitions That Do Not Match Why openness is claimed by bodies that mean different things by it, and which of the claimed properties an implementer can actually verify. computing history
- Jun 29, 2025 Tolerant Parsing and Its Limits What the robustness principle actually licenses, where lenient receivers create security and interoperability problems, and how specifications narrow the tolerance they once encouraged. internet protocols
- May 26, 2025 Why Compatible Standards Still Fail to Interoperate The layers above the encoding where two conforming products diverge: version negotiation, timeouts, error handling and the assumptions each side makes about the other. computing history
- Dec 22, 2024 Retiring a Protocol Version Without a Flag Day Why old versions persist after they are known to be weak, how deprecation is staged across senders and receivers, and what actually forces a deployment off a protocol. internet protocols
- May 17, 2024 Profiles and Conformance Classes: Narrowing a Standard Without Editing It How profiles make a broad specification testable for a specific market, what a conformance class promises, and why profiles proliferate. computing history
- Apr 5, 2024 De Jure Standard Versus De Facto Implementation What actually makes a specification binding, how a vendor artefact becomes the reference behaviour, and why the two kinds of standard diverge in court and in practice. computing history
- Jan 28, 2024 Reference Implementations and the Conformance Laboratory How a second independent implementation turns a specification into a testable claim, and what conformance suites certify versus what they leave to precedent. computing history
- Dec 30, 2022 X.400 Versus SMTP: When a Better-Designed Messaging System Loses How the OSI message handling system specified store-and-forward routing, naming and delivery reports, why its design was technically more complete than SMTP, and what prevented it from displacing an internet mail architecture that was already deployed. computing history