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- From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- To: "xml-dev" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 14:13:34 -0500
At 02:01 PM 1/17/00 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>I'd suggest, then, that the biggest barrier right now is not the fee
>but the whole committee structure and process of the W3C -- it's
>designed for companies that can afford to free up engineers to do
>standards work, and that tends to mean companies with revenues over
>US$5M/year.
Agreed - but changing that process appears to take a lot more gumption than
is currently available.
There's a lot more at stake in changing the W3C process than lowering fees,
but I'd suggest that all of it is worth considering. The fees may well be
only a symptom - I could hardly disagree with that.
Simon St.Laurent
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