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Hi! --------- > [Tim Bray:] > > [... good stuff that I completely agree with ...] > > | 4. A couple of people made the excellent point that it's tough to > | produce a book on one of these specs in a timely and accurate fashion > | if you're not inside the process. It seems to me that it would be of > | huge benefit for the W3C if such books were easier to produce. It > | might make all sorts of sense for the W3C to have "writers' > | memberships" - non-speaking access to the materials of one activity or > | another. Such memberships wouldn't be free, a cost of perhaps $500 or > | so would bring it well within the bounds of a book-publishing budget > | while discouraging frivolity. > > I think that's a really excellent suggestion. And the cost should > come out of the publisher, up front. > > Jon Since I'm currently writing a book about XML I have to break my silence ;-) I would appreciate such a "writers' membership" VERY much. Where's the right place to discuss that? (I don't think XML-Dev is) Bye, Stefan. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Stefan Mintert UniDo: mintert@i... private: stefan@m... WWW: http://www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/~sm/ +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "let the music keep our spirits high..." (Jackson Browne) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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