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At 08:48 AM 2/9/00 +0000, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > > At 09:17 PM 2/8/00 -0800, Jon Bosak wrote: > >[Peter Murray-Rust:] > > > > >I traded the domain name to OASIS in return for an individual > >membership. > > Thanks for the clarification, Jon. I think this was a valuable contribution. > > > > >I don't think that anyone owns SAX, OASIS included, but I strongly > >believe that further work on it should be conducted in a properly > >constituted OASIS technical committee so that the evolution of the > >specification from this point on is guaranteed to take place under > >a democratic process that is open to all interested parties, > >provides an IPR policy based on an open-source model, and is > >visible to the world at large. The xml-dev list supplies > >visibility but not the rest of what's needed. > > I fully agree about this. When I wrote this I was distinguishing between SAX and SAX2 - perhaps I shouldn't have. My argument was that SAX (V1.0) is now essentially static and as such is worthy of a formal home and curation (e.g. conformance testing as NIST/OASIS have done). SAX2 is dynamic , a product of DavidM and this list and I would not support its transfer until it had passed through the same phases as SAX 1.0. P.
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