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RE: Avoding a repeat of W3C XSD - was Re: Is Web 2.

• To: "'Bjoern Hoehrmann'" <derhoermi@g...>,"'Rick Jelliffe'" <ricko@a...>
• Subject: RE: Avoding a repeat of W3C XSD - was Re: Is Web 2.0 the new XML?
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:30:43 +0100
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> 
> Many W3C Working Groups try very hard to minimize any
> work in response to reviews. 

I'm sorry that's your perception.

My perception is that we had 1100 comments on the "first last call" for
XQuery/XPath/XSLT; and we worked bloody hard for over a year to deal with
them all; and that the resulting improvement to the quality of the specs was
tangible, but not worth the year's delay.

I dare say that to people who raised a comment and only got an answer four
months later, it felt like we were sitting on our backsides doing nothing,
especially if the final answer was "no"; but I can assure you that wasn't
the case.

I think W3C is actually suffering from involving too many people in the
process rather than too few. It's diminishing returns: double the effort for
a 5% improvement in quality.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

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