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On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 07:15:13PM +0100, Dave Pawson wrote: > Not sure about W3C committees destroying hotel rooms > (Liam is that true? :-) Ask any W3Cer about Life After Wreck. :-) > but the 'stale' committee I'm sure> is a reality in most > organisations. At least with the same faces they know that X will hit > his hobby horse again, Y will agree if we shout etc. Bring new faces > in and who knows what might happen. Less cosy. There tends to be a certain amount of turnover in the W3C Working Groups I've watched. People come and go, although usually there are at least a few "core" participants who stay. Yes, you always get someone who will raise a particular issue whenever they can, but often they are also very useful participants in other areas. With hindsight we can say XML could have been simpler, and so could XML Schema. This isn't unique to the W3C: FTP could be simpler, and TCP (as in TCP/IP) had some features that turned out not to scale well in all cases, such as "Slow Start". The local building codes here in Ontario aren't the simplest either. But I'd rather have all of these things than not have them at all, and in practice that's usually the choice. Now, I need to get back to the hotel room. I forgot to smash the television. Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
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