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• To: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>,"'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: "Paul Sumner Downey" <Paul.Downey@w...>
• Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 10:08:57 +0100
• Cc: "'Rich Salz'" <rsalz@d...>,"'Ken North'" <kennorth@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <20040430183312.IIOR26984.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@Turtle>

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

Agreed. A meeting in Palo Alto is 'international' to many on 
this list. I suggest a standards body should consider holding
all its meetings in Mumbai since that's where most of the 
development work seems to be headed or Antarctica since that's 
equally inconvenient to all.

Paul

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