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Simon, Your argument is convincing, but doesn't explain why open access is not given to works-in-progress for consultation by interested parties (i.e. read-only access). I appreciate the need of the W3C to avoid involving too many chefs in cooking up its standards, for exactly the reasons you mention. I also appreciate the need of the organization to finance its activities. However, the pricing scheme is pretty unfair. A company with $49 million in revenue can join as an affiliate member for about 0.01% of revenues (and the fee for full membership is pretty insignificant for the Microsofts and IBMs of the world), whereas for, say, a small Web startup in Prague the affiliate membership fee represents a few month's salary for the average programmer (life is cheap out here...). Anyone interested in setting up a corporation whose only purpose is to join the W3C and "hire" interested individuals for a reasonable fee? (evil :-). Matthew -----Original Message----- From: Simon St.Laurent <SimonStL@c...> To: xml-dev@i... <xml-dev@i...> Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 3:26 PM Subject: RE: Open Standards Processes (WAS Re: Nesting XML based languages and scripting languages) >Len Bullard suggested: > >>o All drafts posted to the web at all times. Anyone can >> read and anyone can contribute. Only a few people edit >> and ISO makes the rules for these people, not the consortia. >> Ensures openness and "a level playing field". > >Frank Boumphrey added: > >>What about us poor authors!! We have to write "knowledgeably" about a >>subject that doesn't even exist. Our books usually appear at about the same >>time as a spec which invalidates every thing we have written!! > >While I sympathize with everyone's impatience, and have lived Frank's 'poor >authors' issue repeatedly, I would hesitate to change the XML process >dramatically at this point. The discussions on this list in the past few days >about 'semantics' alone have shown once again the kinds of rocks on which this >kind of project may founder if it opens up too widely. XML-Dev would probably >be a much louder list than it is if people felt their comments would have a >direct impact on the standard, instead of the informal listening that (I >think) does go on here. I'm not sure all of that loud would be useful or >productive. 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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