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At 03:51 PM 2/9/00 +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote: >On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 09:03:47AM -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >> The point isn't that I want specific answers to _my_ questions - the point >> is that public forums where the W3C has no obligation to answer discussion >> are more or less useless. Why should I post to a comments list when the >> result, for more than a year, is silence? Why should anyone post to those >> lists, except to tilt at windmills? > >Silence doesn't mean ignoring. If this was the case I bet 80% of XML-DEV'er >should quit the list instead of filling a /dev/null in their machine. XML-Dev has a much higher rate of sustained threads than any of the W3C lists - www-style is the only list I've found with traffic or a response ratio any place close to this forum. XML-Dev has something most of the W3C public lists lack: a community of interested people, talking back and forth about issues that are important to them. >From the outside, the difference between silence and ignoring is pretty much nothing. Without some kind of feedback, preferably public feedback, those lists aren't ever going to attract a community. That may well be what the W3C wants, but it makes it hard to tell people to post their concerns to these forums. > yes as explained, because per the process a WG member can't just assert >something publicly before being sure it's the WG opinion (he can do it as >an individual, but that wouldn't count as much). And design issues takes >time to get reviewed. Maybe it's time for the overall process to get reviewed. 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
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