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>Anyone interested in setting up a corporation whose only purpose is to join >the W3C and "hire" interested individuals for a reasonable fee? (evil :-). Now there's a thought. Anyone interested?(I'm serious)!! Frank -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Gertner <matthew@p...> To: xml-dev@i... <xml-dev@i...> Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 8:43 AM Subject: Re: Open Standards Processes >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...) > > 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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