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Didier PH Martin wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > you said: > > Three points > > > a) You seemed to be asserting that Americans in general, (and the > > preponderence of them in W3C) made us incapable of producing > > internationalised specs and it was that which I was refuting > > b) RFC 2070 was used by the W3C HTML WG as part of the creation of HTML > > 4.0 and it was a requirement that HTML 4.0 be completely compliant with > > that RFC > > c) The authors all work for W3C member companies, or in one case for W3C > > itself. In the case of "now works for" I don't think that joining W3C > > made him suddenly less interested in Internationalisation; if anything, > > he had more time to devote to the subject. > > reply: > I never said that american _cannot_ produce good international specs. Read > again my words and don't put in my keyboard things I never said. It appeared to be quite clearly inferred from your choice of juxtaposition. I am happy you have confirmed that this was not your intention. > I am just questionning what the word "standard" really mean. And what is > really behind that word. This is because it seems that a lot of folks are > using this word like other previously used that word to support an opinion, > a religion, a market share. Yes. I agree, it is a word used to describe ,multiple things, from a fully documented and implemented and accepted International Standard down to ... well, anything, really. > I just replied to your example (a bad one). RFC are made under the auspices > of IETF and the IETF process or spec creation is not restricted to solely > consortium members who paid a fee. It does not show that W3C produces > international specs just that IETF does. But I said that I got your point, > you just picked the wrong example :-) (And I do not mean that W3C do not > make efforts to have a more international composition - Do you want me to > repeat it again, so I am sure you understand ;-) No, I am happy enough that yiou clarified it here. > I do not pretent that W3C is less international. Don't try to change the > focus. Sorry I got misled by what you appeared to be saying. Glad you weren't. > The point is: > What is really "standard" and what is _really_ behind this word. And when > can we say that "this" ( a spec , a document, etc...) is a "standard". > > You said: > > Thats another difference between W3C and ISO - in W3C we are designing > > stuff, not just ratifying it, and we don't have infinite time to do so, > > typically a year or less. We typically have a bunch of divergent > > interests to try and satisfy and we also want it to fit into the > > framework of existing Recommendations and concurrent work in different > > working groups, and we want to get buy-in from implementors and web > > designers.... in less than a year. > > reply: > can you tell us, apart from what you mentionned earlier. What is currently > presented from W3C to ISO? HTML 4.0 and PNG 1.0 are well on their way through ISO standardisation. WebCGM is likely to be registered as a Standard Profile of CGM. Other specs are being considered, but some folks want to see the value of transitioning a W3C Rec to IS before investing the effort. > Is CSS in the process? Not currently. > is HTML in the process (I > heard that yes) can you confirm? yes > Is XML in the process (not as Web SGML but > as XML)? Don't know. I have heard contradictory reports and have no firm fdata at this point. -- Chris 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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