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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: W3C, responsibility (Re: Why the Infoset?)
 "Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > But you were the person who kept bringing up 'moral issues' on xml-uri, so > you seem to have some respect for the W3C as a keeper of standards. (In > that discussion, I clearly had less respect for such 'moral issues'.) Although I am an employee of a member corporation of the W3C, my participation predates my employment, and I have not attempted to advocate the particular interest of my employer. (Indeed, I don't know what its particular interest might be.) Rather, I see it as my duty *to myself* to ensure that the W3C is held to the highest possible moral standard as long as I am involved in it or with it. Not to do so would be to undercut my own self-image. > I guess the question I keep having is whether the Infoset should do the > best job that seems possible, given the additional exposure it will > definitely receive as a publication of the W3C. I think that it should. "Best", however, immediately provokes the question "best for what or whom?" > Seems to me that 'best > job' in this case would involve some attempt at 'complete', since it's > called the 'XML Information Set', not the 'Common XML Information Set'. In my judgment, fully-reconstructible completeness such as Jonathan Borden seeks is neither necessary nor appropriate for the W3C, as I think it would tend to hinder rather than help acceptance of the standard among its primary customers: other W3C WGs. You and I seem to disagree only on particular points, not on the general principle of excluding some information. It is unfair (and I can't help it) that those who are W3C members or invited experts get first-class access to the discussion, whereas all others can be heard but can't *interact*. Nevertheless, you *are* heard (as part of the moral imperatives mentioned above), and your needs will be met if I can do so consistently with my other responsibilities and my technical judgment. (And of course I am not TimBL, so I can be overridden.) -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@r...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer) 
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