xml-dev - RE: Origins of XML

[Peter Murray-Rust <peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>]

At 01:16 PM 6/15/00 -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>Tim Bray and Rick Jeliffe have it right.  
>
>We've been through this before.  This is a 
>good time for OASIS to add a prominent page 
>that can be referred to on the history of 
>markup technologies. 

I agree. The archives of this list (1997-03...) also cover an important
part of this historical period and I suspect all of the early members of
the XML-WG and XML-SIG were subscribers. You will see some of the
discussion taking place in "public", although much more is in the archives
of the WG and SIG. I would also support the analysis that XML was truly a
group effort - the early members put in a *huge* amount of work and I
regard the deliberations of the SIG (I was privileged to be a member) as
one of the great virtual collaborations of all time.

	P.


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