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RE: Keeping ISO 8879 Alive (was RE: Markup pe rspect

  • To: 'Tim Bray' <tbray@t...>, XML DEV <xml-dev@l...>
  • Subject: RE: Keeping ISO 8879 Alive (was RE: Markup pe rspective not code)
  • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
  • Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 16:37:57 -0500

RE:  Keeping ISO 8879 Alive (was RE:  Markup pe rspect
That is why we have to lash them together with knives. :-)

In the sense that no organization ever demonstrates 
complete competence 24x7, I have to agree.  However, 
we are seeing the emergence of multiple consortia 
now attempting to spec and standardize overlapping 
domains.  It could be useful to have ISO as the 
arbitrator given that they (as I define them) 
get the lawyers and marketeers.  Let them do the 
short sword work.  They are trained for it.

We have a global system that is reaching down 
and up into every corner of our lives.  We must 
have an agreed upon means to make choices given 
the emergence of competing factions for control 
over those choices.  I'd like to say that this 
can be done by the W3C, but I don't think it 
can.  The polity is wrong and does not include 
representation for all who are affected.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...]

Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

... mostly sensible stuff ...

> What will be hard for the consortia to 
> accept is that while they are writing specifications, 
> the authoritative documents at the 
> highest level of governance are the ISO standards. 

In this particular alternate universe, TCP/IP withered away in the face 
of the highest level of governance, which was insisting on OSI 
networking.  We all use ODA to exchange documents.  And the world-wide 
web is based on ISO 10744.

It is not useful to believe that at any absolute level, any 
consortium/institute/standards body is any better than any other.  Judge 
'em by what they produce.  They all have hits & misses.  -Tim


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