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That is the sort of thing that make some take the W3C a little less seriously as a 'standards organization': 1. There is seldom if ever a reason for a public standard to be secret information, nor any of the information which has acted in a policy role with regard to its acceptance. There is if this is actually a private specification for a system whose design is shared among the members of that private organization. This is the difference in a commons and private property. The former enables cooperation; the latter enables competition. 2. Policies for the creation of dissemination of the work products must be the same for all groups that create standards under the aegis of a standards organization with some limited flexibility accorded to the chairs of the groups creating those. A private organization has no such constraints but to mitigate conflicts within that organization will evolve some means of mitigation such as deferring to the authority of a single group or individual within that organization. The effectiveness of that will be limited by the competence of that agent and the means accorded to that agent. It is often said that the differences among these organizations is not perceptible or that one could not judge given the products. There is a difference between temporal competence and inbuilt limitations based on organizational requirements. Caveat emptor. Individuals will make a difference in a short run, but over the long haul, institutional policies are more reliable. One can tweak a Volkswagen to run like a Masserati. It just won't run very long. len From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] At 10:42 AM 6/20/2003 -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >Are the W3C implementations *reference* implementations >or *sample* implementations? IOW, how is the implementation >tied to the specification in terms of features and proof >of conforming and compliant implementation? Are any public source? >Are they tied normatively to the spec or informatively? This information is not public, certainly not a spec-by-spec basis. From what I can gather, different Working Groups appear to have very different criteria, but few of them take the time to explain the criteria, at least in public.
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