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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: WSIO vs. Semantic Web
 And that is precisely the rub. If the W3C based on it's imprimatur is the force that standardizes the web, a choice of what work is most appropriate at any given time has to be made. It is the religious almost insane attachment to "The Web" that makes the management of these decisions so difficult. SGMLers spent years trying to keep the markup standards from being too tightly wed to any "system". That is why SGML has Public IDs and System IDs. It is a pain but it let the standard evolve separately from operating system locators and in that time, it was necessary because there was no single dominant operating system. Now we have "The Web" and people insisting this is "The Most Powerful Distributed Computing System Ever Conceived" and that, Simon, leads inevitably to the place you say you don't want to go. You can't touch your elbow with the hand on the same arm. That is why you are a bicameral mammal. Nature got that right. By insisting that XML was all the future of markup, by deprecating SGML, by insisting on all things Internet Be Web, you bought into a system that leads to precisely here: the large commercial entities get to say what the future of "The Web and Markup" are. When we started, the project was "SGML On The Web", not "XML, the SGML Killer". Ambitions and unwise choices got us here. len -----Original Message----- From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 9:49 AM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: RE: WSIO vs. Semantic Web On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 09:37, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > Yet, if the > W3C is to serve its membership, it must listen > and respond if these members make a case that > the Semantic Web is not where they want their > dollars to be spent. And for those of us more interested in the Web than in the members, it may not be such a bad thing to see the hype-meisters of Web Services take their toys and go someplace else. They might conceivably do less damage to XML and the Web that way, in any case. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> 
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