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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: opposition to ISO XML?
 It probably depends on who you ask and when. As pointed out in your mail and others, the question might better be expressed as you did: does anyone oppose it? I had some private email with one of the ISO functionaries who would logically be involved in such a thing and his comment was one of opposition to ISO rubberstamping W3C specifications. He expressed that if ISO were to be an active partner in the development of a specification, then there would be a benefit to such a partnership, but that to merely put ISO numbers on W3C specs is a waste of time. In the development of VRML2.0 and now X3D, ISO has been an active contributing partner to the development of the standard. The input of ISO has been timely, the technical insights valuable, and the process actually made more clear and better managed. Perhaps this is one case and ISO HTML is another. Still we know that it can work where all parties work toward a common goal. We can't say it is "too slow for Internet time" any longer because we have empirical demonstrations this is not the case. We can't say the ISO process is unwieldy because it is process which ISO guarantees and which has proven to be the best means of consolidating competing interests. While the need of ISO endorsement for some contracting processes is real, the reality of ISO partnership would be practical only if ISO is a full contributing technical and managerial partner. My guess is that if some object, this could be the core of that objection. Functionally as Rick Jeliffe points out, the use of "XML is SGML" and citing the right documents gets us through most of the current contract issues as long as the buyer accepts the XML restrictions on the application of SGML. Len Bullard clbullar@i... http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] So far as I know, no one's attempted to submit XML 1.0 or any version thereof to ISO, but there has been discussion of such a possibility, notably at the community meeting at XMLDevCon 2000 earlier this month. I'm just curious, for the most part, but is there any reason that submitting XML to ISO in some form would generate opposition? Tim Bray asked if people _wanted_ to submit XML to ISO, which didn't get very much support, but I wonder if there would be opposition to such a move. There do seem to be a few sectors which might benefit from a more explicit ISO stamp on XML than the current 'XML is really just SGML'. There is some precedent with ISO HTML: http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=82 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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