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 At 10:08 AM 10/16/00 -0400, Mick Goulish wrote: >So, Simon, here's what you can do to influence "standards" formation >without telling *other* people what they should do. Ah, but the point is that I (and others) are growing tired of being told what to do by *other* people inside of organizations issuing specs. The list of answers you provide doesn't really fix that. >Another numbered list. > >1. Keep putting out your opinions on xml-dev. This is free, anybody > can do it, and it works. *If* enough other people like your ideas, > they will get instantiated in "standards". > >2. If you really want to be part of the W3C groups, join a company > that will put you there. For someone with your experience and > standing in the XML community, this would be easy. And if you > didn't have that standing and experience -- you wouldn't deserve > a seat at those tables. > >3. Implement, or if you can't implement then *describe* Something > Really Cool. A meme that spreads through the community like > SAX has done. Very conventional ideas, none of which do anything to change the overall state of the W3C. I've done plenty of #1, I question the value of #2, and regularly attempt #3 when I can find time and money. If you haven't noticed, I've put in plenty of time on XSchema/DDML, Common XML, and XPDL. Not all blaring successes, but all of them contributions. I can't say I ever expected to hit home runs my first few times out, or to ever hit home runs all by myself. >But don't tell me that I ought to be more "accountable" to you or >anybody else for expressing my technical judgements in a voluntary >forum. I'm not saying that you personally should be accountable, but that an organization creating de facto standards should be accountable in some significant way that extends beyond its membership. I'm much more concerned with the accountability of the organization than its participants. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books 
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