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At 02:01 PM 1/17/00 -0500, David Megginson wrote: >I'd suggest, then, that the biggest barrier right now is not the fee >but the whole committee structure and process of the W3C -- it's >designed for companies that can afford to free up engineers to do >standards work, and that tends to mean companies with revenues over >US$5M/year. Agreed - but changing that process appears to take a lot more gumption than is currently available. There's a lot more at stake in changing the W3C process than lowering fees, but I'd suggest that all of it is worth considering. The fees may well be only a symptom - I could hardly disagree with that. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com 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/ or CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 Please note: New list subscriptions now closed in preparation for transfer to OASIS.
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