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At 02:47 PM 11/18/98 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >If I could open the W3C process, or start a new parallel open process, I >would. Since neither of those things is possible (the W3C won't likely >open its doors ... There is some reasoning behind the rather-less-open W3c process. After the IETF HTML process went off the rails, some people who were there (I wasn't) felt that one of the reasons was that open processes in areas where there are all sorts of billion-dollar bets on the table are highly fragile in the face of attack-trained marketing departments. The great virtue of the W3C process is that the marketeers are more or less muzzled until consensus has been achieved. Which is pretty important. In fact, engineers from companies who are mortal enemies can demonstrably carve out mutually beneficial progress if they are allowed to do so out of the marketing spotlight. If someone came forward with a proposal that made the W3C process more transparent while keeping the debate, as much as possible, on technical grounds, that would be a clear step forward and I suspect would be welcomed by everyone. At a deeper level, there is also a really tough issue at work here. Simply put, smaller committees can get *way* more work done than can larger ones. On the other hand, such groups are by definition much less open/democratic than larger ones. So we have two virtues, get-some-standards-built-quick vs make-sure-we-get-all-the-input, which are in direct competition with each other. Not an easy nut to crack. -Tim 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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