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Len, > I hate to see the W3C reduced to creating > only specifications for low level technologies for > which there are only ever a few implementations needed. I don't think anyone thinks that's happened, or is asking for that to happen. (Did you leave out a "would"?) The concern is more that W3C should focus on technologies for which multiple implementations are expected and desirable ... like, for example, many "low level" technologies, and not a small number of higher level ones! The "only a few implementations" is a business strategy chosen by some vendors as a way to preclude or minimize competition. That's not really what standards are all about. Even if folk advocating patents can licence patents separately from implementations which use it. - Dave
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