xml-dev - Re: Andreessen on XML (InfoWorld)

[Chris Maden <crism@oreilly.com>]

[Jeremy Griffith]
> "Reference implementation of XML"???  Does anyone have any idea
> *what* he is talking about?  (Does *he*?)

Are you surprised?  Do you remember this snippet from _le Monde
Informatique_
(<URL:http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-sgml-wg/msg04410.html>)?

<quote>
LMI: Among the protocols that are actually discussed inside the W3C
you find XML, a document description language supported by Microsoft,
among others. Why isn't Netscape participating in these efforts?

MA: "XML"? That sounds really proprietary, doesn't it? [Grin] Don't
forget that the Internet standard is a protocol that has brought forth
a consensus at the heart of institutions like the W3C, the IETF and
even ECMA [?], which is working on JavaScript. The rest is just a
proposal ...
</quote>

The translation from French comes with heavy disclaimers, but the
original French publication had something very close to this
(<URL:http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-sgml-wg/msg04404.html>):

<quote>
M.A.: «XML»?... Cela sonne très propriétaire, non?  (sourire) Ne
perdons pas de vue qu'un standard Internet est un protocole qui a
suscité un consensus au sein d'institutions comme le W3C, l'IETF ou
encore l'ECMA qui travaille sur Javascript. Le reste n'est que
proposition...
</quote>

-Chris
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