xml-dev - RE: standards body parallel

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Or take some time to read The Federalist Papers 
detailing the warps and woofs of trying to 
move from confederation to federation.  

"Old Ben Franklin had a pipe 
Eee eye eye oh
And when they passed it they got frank 
Eee eye eee eye oh
With a puff puff here and a puff puff there..."

Power tends to concentrate into the hands 
of those who lead groups to consensus by 
enabling them to see that is where they 
already want to go.  Trade and commerce 
are not created by erecting barriers to 
competition, by using complexity in the 
guise of quality to fence out new competitors, 
but by creating alliances among emerging 
and energetic doers.  They do not have to 
be innovators; just servers of needs extant 
and realized, or emergent and predictable.

To surf, swim ahead of the wave and keep 
your balance.

Len 
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]

Anyone interested in the politics of vendor consortia might want to take a
look at this article:

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2640166,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews
01

I don't know how it'll turn out, but it suggests that the model used for
the creation of XML and XML-related specs at the W3C is not everyone's
favorite.