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Pretense and policy are different texts. There has been an enormous pretense over the last ten years and we are now facing the problems of thinking such pretense is policy. It isn't. That any individual or group reflects on the public interest speaks well of their morals, and such are to be commended. To state that they represent it is to assert authority they do not have legally and must be challenged. That said, they do a reasonable job with their specifications in pursuit of the interests of their members and that is not at issue. len -----Original Message----- From: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@p...] > I think you're point's well stated, Len. W3C is not a body in pursuit of the > public interest. Of course, I certainly recall folk trying to deflect various criticisms of W3C on this list with arguments along the lines of "that's not true, W3C _is_ representative of the overall web community". It's a case of "can't have cake and eat it too". And in particular, if W3C isn't the body in pursuit of the public interest for web technologies, then nontrivial chunks of the work done in that context have been under false pretenses. - Dave
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