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1998 footnote: The question became salient for me when I attended a DARPA meeting in 1969 at which the Navy's Fleet Data System was described.
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1998 footnote: Emphasizing security over content is still a problem.
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1998 footnote: I didn't see this in the ICE literature.
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1998 footnote: This list format is isomorphic to XML but simpler. The first example below translated into XML becomes

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<YOUR-STOCK-NUMBER> A7305 </YOUR-STOCK-NUMBER>

<UNITS> 100 </UNITS>

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with no obvious benefit over

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This isn't part of the ICE specification as far as I can see.
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John McCarthy
Fri May 7 13:56:17 PDT 1999