xml-dev - RE: Improved writing -- who's going to pay for it?

[Linda van den Brink <lvdbrink@baan.nl>]

> Readers are invited to submit comments on specs, but readers are not
> invited to participate in the development of specs as 
> participants.  I'd
> suggest that this barrier doesn't exactly encourage readers 
> to take on copy
> editing W3C specs as a gift to an organization that isn't 
> exactly inclusive.

True. And another reason I just thought of out why it wouldn't work is, that
a reader who has difficulty understanding a section of a w3c spec would also
have difficulty suggesting a rewrite. Whereas a tech writer, who is inside
the organization, would presumably have good communication lines to the
editors of specs and could ask them 'what is meant here' and THEN come up
with a good rewrite. 

Linda