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Re: XML 2.0 Specifications and working groups

• From: David Lyon <david@g...>
• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>,Jeff Greif <jgreif@a...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 00:13:00 +1000

Len,

Interesting. 

I'd be interested if you have contact information for these chaps.

Regards

David Lyon

On Monday 15 October 2001 23:41, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Ummm... five years is the ISO cycle for review and that isn't a
> bad idea.  It isn't going to start on XML-Dev as Yet Another We
> Have Laid-Off Programmers In Need of Something to Hack Project.
> The W3C owns XML, has rules for who can work on what, who can
> initiate the work and how that work will be scheduled.
>
> Isn't the TAG supposed to be looking into issues like this?
> Bray and Connoly were appointed to the by Berners-Lee.  Maybe
> they should be looking into the review of XML 1.0.  Ask them.
>
> len
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Greif [mailto:jgreif@a...]
>
> I think that Len meant that being around 4 years was insufficient
> justification in itself for starting work on XML 2.0; rather, a list of
> putative mistakes, dubious decisions, omissions and potential enhancements
> would drive people to initiate action.  Of course, you probably didn't mean
> that being around 4 years was a good reason in itself either.
>
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