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> -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...] > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:46 PM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: Has XML run its course? > > > At 12:18 PM 26/09/01 -0700, Tom Bradford wrote: > > But the W3C *has* outlived its usefulness, > >and it's time that another, more responsible, entity took over the > >future of XML's evolution. > > What kind of entity would be appropriate? Something > existing, or is time to start with something new? -Tim Speaking of deja vu ... the SGML/HTML worlds must have faced a somewhat similar situation in 1993-1994 as SGML looked powerful and interesting but the ISO process seemed inadequate for a world appearing to operate in "internet time", and HTML looked simple and promising but was rapidly becoming ad-hoc and proprietary. It was an awfully good idea to establish something like the W3C as a "treaty organization" where vendors (rather than national standards organizations, like the ISO ... or all sorts of random individuals, like the IETF) could get together and work out where they wished to cooperate, and where they wished to compete. In retrospect, the W3C did serve that purpose quite well for awhile, even if (arguably) both the world and the organization have since moved on. How did the W3C come about to fill the niche that needed to be filled? I'll guess that it couldn't have happened without the enormous credibility that Tim Berners-Lee brought to the party. Any ol' timers out there remember those days well enough to provide us with the lessons of history?
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