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 That isn't always a bad outcome. They have to support what they sell as long as they entered into maintenance contracts. Otherwise, liquidated damages follow. And the Justice Department won't call it collusion unless they are secretly planning. The specification organizations give them a management system for cooperation. They still have to write and submit specification drafts. De facto standards dominate the Internet. That's what successful technologies built over specifications are. The best way to solve the boring standards work problem is to use organizations competent at managing the boring phase. Use ISO. Again, the right people at the right place doing the work they are good at. This is obvious. len -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:jonathan.robie@d...] At 10:03 AM 4/25/2002 -0700, Paul Prescod wrote: >Okay, but let's acknowledge market realities: as we've seen many times, >when the standards body refuses to take the lead, vendors do. And what >happens is that industry's technologies become "de facto standards." >This puts "leading vendors" in a position to use their power to redirect >the standards landscape unilaterally. Bingo. Worse yet, if two or more of these vendors try to agree on one way of doing things, it can be seen as collusion by the Justice Department, and the companies can be sued for trying to cooperate. This is why the HTML browser vendors were so keen to have a body to oversee their cooperation, and it's an important factor in most W3C Working Groups. One might argue that W3C recommendations should be treated as openly agreed industry standards. One might also argue that there should be some way to decide which standards still matter in five years, clean them up, and do the boring standards work Mike prefers at that point. 
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