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• To: "'Robin Cover'" <robin@i...>,"'Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)'" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: RE: ISO and the Standards Golden Hammer (was Re: [xml-d ev] You call that a standard?)
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:34:00 +0100
• Cc: "'Rich Salz'" <rsalz@d...>,"'Ken North'" <kennorth@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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>   Look, the whole issue of openness is really a red
>   herring. I can say that my process is completely open
>   and anyone in the world can participate. But let's
>   schedule my meetings every quarter and once in Tokyo
>   and once in Berlin and once in Vienna and once in
>   Vancouver and once in Washington. Effectively only
>   the biggest players in the world can play. So, making
>   it open, but making it infeasible to participate means
>   it is, in effect, not open. 

But it's more open than the only alternative which is to hold 90% of your
meetings in the same continent.

Michael Kay

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