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 At 01:06 PM 10/13/00 -0400, Jonathan.Robie@S... wrote: > > This looks like a rather different model from that of the W3C, which was > designed to provide a vendor-neutral forum. The people quoted in your article > seem to have been upset largely by the fact that their forum was dominated > and controlled by one vendor. On the Working Groups, each company gets one > vote - sure, big companies have more resources for lobbying, and are more > likely to be able to devote full-time developers to help with the technical > work. Intel's position appears to be the only aspect of the model substantially different from the W3C. >Nied said the group would be administered by a steering committee >of seven companies chaired by Intel. Two of the seven would be >elected by "contributors" -- companies or individuals that pay >$5,000 to submit ideas to technical committees and get early access to >specifications. "Steering committee" members would pay $25,000, and >"participant" members could join for $500. > >Non-disclosure agreements would be discouraged. Companies would have >to prove their own copyrights and prepare to subject their >intellectual property to the rules of standards bodies. "This is >like an unincorporated trade association," Nied said. "We want >something very simple." I don't find the notable point here to be Intel's role - Sun's done very similar things with their Java Community Process. What I find notable is that a community of developers (finally) voiced their lack of interest in such centralizing and exclusive processes. Note Tim O'Reilly: > > "The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) has a good working model [for > projects like this], and you propose an organization where the big players > have all the power." Cisco wants Intel to look at the W3C structure as a model, but I'd suggest that there's more wrong here than just Intel's position as chair. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books 
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