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Re: Excellent Insight on Standards Development vs Invention

• To: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Subject: Re: Excellent Insight on Standards Development vs Invention
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:59:18 -0800
• Cc: Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>, "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
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On Nov 12, 2004, at 4:07 PM, Rich Salz wrote:
>> compare RSS->Atom to SGML->XML. Trying to fix the problems with RSS by
>> inventing Atom isn't analogous to fixing SGML by inventing XML, its 
>> more
>> like fixing XML 1.0 by inventing XML 1.1
>
> Oh man, that's a great quip.  Short, pointed, and basically on the 
> mark.

Obviously, I disagree.  Fortunately, if we just sit tight for a bit 
we'll get to find out who's right. -Tim

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