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Tim Bray wrote: > At 11:25 PM 2/7/99 -0500, Murray Maloney wrote: > >I can claim that it is a ramshackle compromise because I was > >witness to its creation. The process stunk to high heaven. > >The result is an awful compromise, and not because I don't > >like it. > > In fact, Murray disagrees so strongly with what the spec *says* > (often, and on the record) that he is probably not the best judge > of how well it says it. -Tim Well who is the best judge then? I thought that standards bodies were largely in existence to promote concensus on matters which companies and organizations disagree upon. Rather than bring everyone together, this entire "Namespaces in XML" recommendation has splintered the entire XML community. By that fact alone, the W3C is not doing a good job as a standards body for the internet. I am a forgiving person when it comes to making one, maybe two complete blunders (such as the case with "Namespaces in XML"), but many people are not as forgiving as I. Most of these people don't post to this list or even subscribe to it. They would just look at "Namespaces in XML" and then quietly go back to their current vendor specific solution for their web-publishing and e-commerce needs and forget the draft ever existed. The same goes for recommendations like XSL which are polluted with "Namespaces in XML" as well. They are the real "silent majority" that the W3C seems to have complete disdain for. The simple truth is that if the W3C does not behave more sensitive to criticism in the future and conduct itself in a more utilitarian manner, or at least make a change in the leadership of the organization, people like me and many others will clamor for creating another internet standards body that is not as slow in adopting standards as ISO or ANSI, but is not as obstinate as the W3C. Of course "Namespaces in XML" has to me been the only super-major screwup in the W3C's short life as a budding internet standards organization. I guess the question now is whether or not the W3C and its members have the courage to make the necessary changes. Tyler 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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