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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: Arjun Ray <aray@q2.net>, xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 08:17:54 -0700
At 12:55 AM 9/7/99 -0400, Arjun Ray wrote:
>Actually, the origin of XML as a W3C activity was irregular: it didn't
>become an approved activity until Summer '97, at which point the ERB+WG
>structure (with a "closed but public" mailing list) was reorganized into
>the new WG+SIG (and the mailing list was sucked into the Members Area.)
Historically inaccurate. XML was an official W3C activity starting
in July '96. The re-organization you describe (accurately) was part
of a W3C-wide process regularization. It is correct to say that the
W3C staff & management didn't really take XML seriously until the
late spring of '97. -Tim
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