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> Results, yes. Accountability? Only to members. This has been an interesting discussion. We seem to have entered a new era. There was a time we expected standards organizations and governments, typically elected governments, to carry the banner of standards compliance. We valued the role of organizations such as ISO, which includes national standards federations and ballots by member country. The new model, as evidenced by Java and XML, is to abrogate the traditional means of promoting standards. Instead, we see de facto standards emerge from the corporate world -- either a single corporation and its partners through a community process (Java), or a consortium with representation and balloting by member company (XML). If support for the new model persists, developers and technology consumers should not look to standards organizations or government agencies to create or foster new information processing standards. Instead, we emasculate standards organizations and delegate their functions to corporations and consortia.
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