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Re: Yo' mama's non-technical aguments

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• Subject: Re: Yo' mama's non-technical aguments
• From: Arjun Ray <aray@n...>
• Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 08:42:36 +0000
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Mike Champion <mc@x...> wrote:

| The other reason that people should "spend time reading broken W3C 
| specs" is that few of us really have the luxury of ignoring the 
| downstream implications of a spec that is widely supported by the 
| major players. 

True.  Eternal vigilance is the price of proper Damage Control.
 
| Whether or not one considers namespaces or XSDL types "broken", 
| they've created considerable challenges for almost everyone, 

Love the euphemism.

| and perhaps some of these could have been avoided if more people 
| "laid down in the road" and demanded more implementation and 
| interoperability experience before these specs were made into 
| Recommendations. 

You think?  Well, XML Namespaces never made it past WD while the old
WG/SIG lasted.  Then came recharter time, the naysayers were quietly
pruned, and lo the WD sailed through to Rec in short order.  This is
called <gong>"W3C Process"</gong>, I believe. 

The operative word is attrition.
  

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