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Ann Navarro wrote: > > At 12:08 AM 8/31/99 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > >Ann Navarro wrote: > >> > >> Part of the problem here is what is and what isn't confidential discussions > >> in a WG. If this were a W3C-internal list, I could be more forthcoming ... > > > >And of course, that's the cause of a lot of the problems. > > > >The more I watch things at W3C, the more I feel that the Web should be > >driven instead by a standards organization with public accountability. > >Being accountable to vendors who have vested interests in bloatware (as > >key parts of new barriers to entry) isn't the right model. > > Take a look at the membership list: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List > > While there are certainly the large industry players on there, there's lots > of little guys I didn't say "big" vendors -- you did. Smaller vendors (including "little guys" whose incomes are a function of taming complexity) can have interests in creating bloatware too. The folk who do _not_ have vested interests in bloated software are typically represented by checks and balances in the standards-making process. But W3C, unlike other groups (such as the IETF, IEEE, ANSI) doesn't have any effective checks on such biases. > -- and indeed my own constituency (the HTML Writers Guild), > effectively represents 100,000 individual little guys. We're not > "accountable to vendors....". We act on our own behalf, and have the same > power as any other participant. Our Microsoft participant doesn't get his > way any more than anyone else does :) And I didn't mention Microsoft, either. It's evident that they're a vendor with the proven desire and capability to create bloatware, but they're not in it alone. One doesn't need to be a conspiracy theorist to identify real flaws in how the W3C does its business. As a steward of an international resource, it should be as accountable to customers as to vendors. - Dave 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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