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I mean things more like HTTP protocol support, or how many XML parsers do we need, nothing more sinister. We definitely will have a semantic problem with "low level" and "high level". For example, is XML low-level or high-level? SVG seems to me to be high-level but turning around and looking at GML, it would be low level compared to feature sets built up for specific location dependent services. The W3C can focus on the high level, but the numbers of viable implementations still tends to be driven by the numbers of viable companies that can implement them of the tenacity of a given open source group. Again, those with IP will have to make the decision to seek a standard or go their own way. It certainly doesn't hurt Adobe or Macromedia which depend on colonization. All of these strategies are viable and I wouldn't count on bad press, public pressure, or anything else to change that. Even small vendors choose proprietary if it suits their business model. There are politics and markets and when these overlap as standards, que bueno. When they don't, don't expect the BigCos to fall on their swords. len -----Original Message----- From: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@p...] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 4:15 PM To: Bullard, Claude L (Len); xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: RAND issues 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.
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