Subject: RE: XSL with scripting From: Ed Nixon <ed.nixon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 15:52:12 -0500 |
Put another way, I guess: the W3C is just that, a consortium consisting of and existing at the sufferance of large and well-healed corporations who, as much as anything, wish to be seen to be participating in a 'standardization' effort. Consequently, W3C is not particularly well structured or mandated to collect and reflect the desires or even needs of customers. i.e., the members of this list. I assume each of the consortium members has a function that it thinks well able to assess customer need. Some may think they are well equipped to *shape* customer need...or at any rate tell customers what they want. This is the true meaning of "embrace and expand". :-) "Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > > Which, of course, raises the question of why people who are locked out of > the discussions should be inclined to have much faith in the decisions > arrived at in those discussions. "Paul Prescod replied" Users ceded control of their standards from organizations they could control -- such as the IETF and ISO -- to organizations that they could not -- such as the W3C. Users confer legitimacy just on standards organizations just as they do on governments. Presumably, they trust these organizations. Luckily, a determined and interested group of users can make their own standards: we've already seen that with SGML (ISO) and WebDAV (IETF) and even XML-DEV (SAX). The only problem is that more advanced standards are incredibly expensive to create. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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