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Title: Don't
base it on the organization. Base it on the customer and
the
nature of the contract established by it with regard to compliance
and
conformance among contracting parties.
People keep turning this into the W3C (The Good Guys) against
the
world (Everyone Else). It is not that simple. By pursuing
the course that the W3C is a standards
body, they are forced
to support effort and processes that
distract them from being
able to incubate technology.
They are the Good Guys only
insofar as they achieve that. When they attempt
to be a
governing body, they are just "The New Boss" and the
counterrevolution will follow
quickly.
The system that enables government customer to declare
standards, vendors to support and create
specifications, and
standards to normatively reference specifications
works.
What you have now is leading to a collision of
governing authority
and that will mean the end of the W3C as an effective
source of engineering specifications. They
are already
becoming arthritic. Don't do this.
You are screwing the pooch
for a satisfaction that will be weak and
unsustainable.
Len Bullard
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