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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Re: W3C and Linking - what is the future?
 10/24/2002 8:59:23 AM, John Cowan <jcowan@r...> wrote: > >> Maybe someone will stumble across the plot and hand it in to a Lost Property >> Office. > >Sure. Like IETF, or OASIS, or ECMA, or ISO. Exactly. Outside of one particular area where the W3C Director has a strong vision and has raised outside funding to support development of that vision, the W3C doesn't have a "plot." Neither does IETF, OASIS, etc. ... they all exist to facilitate localize cooperation not global domination. The W3C does try harder (at least for the last year or so) than most others to maintain some sort of global consistency, but look how hard it is to sort out even something as superficially simple as URIs! Another point that needs to be made is that it's ultimately the membership that votes with the paychecks of people who do the work. The Master Plan can say whatever its authors want, but it won't get implemented without the support from the membership. (Ahem, that's why the Director needs outside funding to work on his vision). There are plenty of things that the W3C doesn't do very well and constructive criticism (or voting with feet) is warranted, but I don't think this is one of them. Do you *want* some industry consortium to have a Master Plan? After all, the Web didn't fit into anyone's plot 10 years ago. I for one am glad that organization had the "vision" or power to keep it suppressed. 
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