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Re: Byzantine schism

• To: Didier PH Martin <martind@n...>
• Subject: Re: Byzantine schism
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 15:19:27 -0700
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Didier PH Martin wrote:

> Question: Is there any integration or consistency checking process in
> W3C. If not, we may have the explanation. Even if a lot of brilliant
> people are active participant to the W3C WG, if wrong processes are
> used, wrong results occurs. I may have the best wood to make the best
> furniture and still get garbage if I use a mini mill manufacture to
> produce the them. If W3C has such consistency checking mechanism can I
> say WAKE UP! :-)

Yes, there is an immense amount of co-ordination work going on all the 
time.  There are several "co-ordination groups" whose mandate is doing 
just this.  This work is not fun.  There are frequent complaints about 
the volume of work and the cost of the ensuing compromises.

There is not, however, a grand unified vision of the future which 
provides an overarching framework that the working groups take as 
context.  Thank goodness.  Do you know anyone who can predict the 
big-picture future of the Web?  I don't.  The grand visions of the 
future come unexpected out of coders' basements and off power-lunch 
cocktail napkins.  All W3C can do is try to shake out a set of best 
common practices so we can make the [expletive deleted] interoperate and provide some 
local entropy resistance. -Tiim

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