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Re: XPointer goes to REC

• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: XPointer goes to REC
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:31:21 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <00ab01c2f34c$62f606b0$4bc8a8c0@A...>

> > > This further says that W3C is politically motivated and is not a true
> > > standards body but one where commercial interests of the insiders are put
> > > ahead of the standards process -
> >
> > Do you know of any standards organization where this isn't true?
>
> This is an overstatement.

Of course it is.

I was responding to the amazingly broad brush that the original
poster used.  Hopefully your detailed examples will lend credence
to the speciousness (speciosity?  bogosity, more likely) of the
original claim:  "I don't trust it, so the whole thing is suspect."

His tune is an old one:
    http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ipsec/1998/07/msg00125.html
    http://lists.elistx.com/archives/ietf-nomcom/200203/msg00089.html
        /r$

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