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• To: 'Rich Salz' <rsalz@d...>, Ken North <kennorth@s...>
• Subject: RE: ISO and the Standards Golden Hammer (was Re: [xml-d ev] You call that a standard?)
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 13:59:44 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

Not pixie dust: traceable process.  How secure are systems without it?

len


From: Rich Salz [mailto:rsalz@d...]

It seems that in Len's view, ISO is magic standard pixie dust sprinkled on
after a private consortium decides the basic technology.  They don't,
historically, invent, they just word-smith.  It might be important
word-smithing, but isn't that really all it is?

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