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Re: a standards story

• Subject: Re: a standards story
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 01:30:07 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> What strikes me as most interesting about this is that people outside 
> the working group effectively had veto power over the spec. If it had 
> been left to merely the group producing the spec to decide when it was 
> done, this would not have happened. I can think of at least two major 
> W3C specs that would possibly have been vetoed if people outside the 
> working group were allowed to vote,

er... *Every* w3c recommendation has to go through a vote of the full 
membership, a majority of whom aren't on any WG, and the "AC members" 
(read voters) are almost never on the WG.  The reason none have been 
voted down (IIRC) is the endless last-call/CR/PR process.. they tend to 
die well before the final vote if they're gonna die.

This war story actually sounds to me like a healthy process at work. -Tim

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  • Re: a standards story
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