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Re: ISO and W3C interaction

• From: KenNorth <KenNorth@e...>
• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:01:05 -0700

<< familiar with ISO could explain how an ISO spec would interact with a W3C
spec and preserve the 'STANDARDS!' angle of it.

What's I'd expect is W3C continues to evolve XML-related specifications.
When it deems a spec to be at a level that will be stable for a while, it
submits it to ISO. This does not mean the spec is frozen at that level. W3C
continues to follow its normal course of events and, as the spec evolves,
W3C repeats the process a few years later.

That scenario worked in 1986, 1989, 1992, 1995, and 1999 for the SQL
standard. After the initial standard (1986), an incubating consortium (SQL
Access Group and later X/Open) continued to advance the standard.

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    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>

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