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That is why we have to lash them together with knives. :-) In the sense that no organization ever demonstrates complete competence 24x7, I have to agree. However, we are seeing the emergence of multiple consortia now attempting to spec and standardize overlapping domains. It could be useful to have ISO as the arbitrator given that they (as I define them) get the lawyers and marketeers. Let them do the short sword work. They are trained for it. We have a global system that is reaching down and up into every corner of our lives. We must have an agreed upon means to make choices given the emergence of competing factions for control over those choices. I'd like to say that this can be done by the W3C, but I don't think it can. The polity is wrong and does not include representation for all who are affected. len -----Original Message----- From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...] Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: ... mostly sensible stuff ... > What will be hard for the consortia to > accept is that while they are writing specifications, > the authoritative documents at the > highest level of governance are the ISO standards. In this particular alternate universe, TCP/IP withered away in the face of the highest level of governance, which was insisting on OSI networking. We all use ODA to exchange documents. And the world-wide web is based on ISO 10744. It is not useful to believe that at any absolute level, any consortium/institute/standards body is any better than any other. Judge 'em by what they produce. They all have hits & misses. -Tim ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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