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Re: a standards story

• To: lauren@t...,xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: a standards story
• From: Ann Navarro <ann@w...>
• Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 12:41:47 -0400
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At 09:36 AM 5/17/2002 -0700, Lauren Wood wrote:


>  And it has been known for individual
>member companies to vote against particular recommendations, though I
>don't know of any that have been entirely rejected. Member companies could
>equally demand that the entire specification be completely reworked.

It happened with HTML 3, though I believe the process was somewhat 
different at the time.


>This tends not to happen, I think for a couple of reasons.
>
>1) the companies that care about the details tend to already be part of the
>WG.

That's a tough one. Getting AC reps from companies not actively involved in 
a WG or planning on implementing a particular technology to spend the 
appropriate amount of time to review and form an informed opinion on the 
matter is difficult. I suspect more than a few member companies only vote 
on what they have direct interest in, and don't even bother reading the rest.

Ann


Ann Navarro, WebGeek Inc.
http://www.webgeek.com/
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