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 Not
exactly. It is up to the legal entity with whom they have the
contract to pursue a legal action if they don't live up to that
agreement. In the case of standards like ISO 9000, there is a
body
with representatives that come and inspect a company's
processes to provide a certification that they do indeed conform.
Having
that certification is a requirement to get some contracts.
If the subject here is still "protection", there isn't much protection against IP being reused, and changed. That is a different issue
from
having conformance testing and authoritative certification. This
is the
point about the W3C being a standards body: what do
you
require of the organizations you empower to represent you?
More specifically, what do you want them to do with the resources (time,
money, materiel) you provide to them? There are limits and
within
those limits there can be discussions of quality, yes, but
again,
ask if the role of the W3C as "technology incubator" and as a
"source of standards and possibly conformance testing and
certification" are necessarily the same, or if it is better to have
different
organizations carrying out these tasks? Len
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