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Bravo!! Well said!!! Frank -----Original Message----- From: len bullard <cbullard@h...> To: Don Park <donpark@q...> Cc: xml-dev@i... <xml-dev@i...> Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 7:19 PM Subject: Open Standards Processes (WAS Re: Nesting XML based languages and scripting languages) >Don Park wrote: >> >> What I am saying is this: closed WG like XSL WG should release interim specs >> more frequently (i.e. 3 months). I believe I have some probability of >> competing with a small MS team even if they were given 3 months of lead time >> (after all I do have the strength of ten men and can leap over reasonably >> tall structures after a good meal ;-). I do not believe I can if they have >> one year of lead time. > >This is an old gripe of mine about the XML process as >conducted by this effort. It is not open. That has >troubled me from the beginning because it is an open >effort to replace an open standard, SGML, with a closed >standard, XML. It is a horrible precedent even if a successful >one. > >Because as demonstrated amply by WWW projects, running code >does indeed out-colonize standards efforts, no one can deny >the need for standards bodies to work with consortiums. It >is now established practice. Still: > >o Consortia are responsible to their members: companies. >o ISO is responsible to its members: countries. > >IMO, ISO must be the party that insists on and ensures >openness because I do not think consortia can to the >degree which will satisfy your real and legitimate >complaint. > >VRML has a consortium, but the language standard is ISO. > >o Consortia and list/volunteer labor. Ensures systemic > applicability. > >o ISO processes for drafting and approving authoritative > language. Ensures contractual stability. > >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". > >If people can't work inside that open a system, they should >not be empowered to draft language, chair committees, or vote. > >Len Bullard > >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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