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The problem is authority and credibility. If the public statements of the authorities are at odds with the policy as expressed in the record of authority, credibility suffers. One can privately agree to disagree, but the public statements make for political problems which will turn into technical problems. Once people started investing, the stakes went way up. The Press is always listening. Worse, we built the very Golem that makes it even more irritating: a web that replicates rumor as fast as fact... indiscriminately. It's one of those "comes with the territory" properties that most CEOs, VPs, etc. learn about sooner or later and detest, but everyone detests the sideeffects of not learning it sooner. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Rick Jelliffe [mailto:ricko@a...] And, furthermore, I think people sometimes get confused between W3C staff (Tim BL, Dan C, etc) having legitimate policy directions and strategies they wish or agree to promote (even as matters of house style, at the lowest level) and official W3C policy. W3C technological specs are developed by W3C Working Groups in which W3C staff only have the same voting rights as other members.
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