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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Ann Navarro wrote: > At 08:44 AM 10/19/00 -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > > >We can't do it *all* on open lists. All that people > >such as Simon St Laurent have asked for is the > >technical reasoning behind decisions. > > > Except that this ignores (or forgets) that all decisions aren't necessarily > based on the best technical reasoning. It may have been politics, > stonewalling, or finally caving in to some sort of consensus with a > minority opinion. Rare are issues that are unanimous. > > Would those who want reasons behind decisions accept "the best solution the > group could come to consensus on"? I can only see follow-up as to what the > other proposals were and why or why not something was/wasn't accepted, and > that's where you get into "Well, Foo, Inc's rep refused this", etc. <quote src"A Few Good Men"> TC: I want the truth! JN: You can't handle the truth! </quote> So, what you are saying is that the reason that the 'rest of us' don't get to see behind the curtain is that we couldn't handle the knowledge? You can't tell us what your reasons are, because then you would have to admit to being a club to help the members sell more software? I cannot imagine a worse reason to keep decisions behind closed doors than because those decisions could not bear the light of day. [NB: I don't think that this is how the W3C produces specs. Otherwise, it would seem extremely unlikely that they would have done as well as they have. Also, I have found the W3C reps on this list and elsewhere to be much more respectable people than that.] sam th sam@u... http://www.abisource.com/~sam/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCABD33FC -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE57z1it+kM0Mq9M/wRAtz8AKCcKuiBDDqWfM7XefvAH7GZqmjiGACgketA KFAKzHSQAwLoNP3QebSZsgE= =YacC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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