xml-dev - RE: sunshine and standards development

[Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>]

At 12:59 -0400 14/10/00, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>The W3C might be wise to acknowledge and address the resentments that a closed
>monopoly process will raise over time, and consider changing some aspect of
>their approach - opening the archives if they want to maintain their
>decision-making role, or encouraging competition if they would prefer to
>remain
>closed.

The conspiracy theory.

Simon, I'm trying to understand your point. I read your mails for a 
few months and I can not really understand it.

So, I can only tell you that we (W3C - Team People) are vendor 
neutral. It's a kind of ethical responsibility. I know that you just 
have to trust them and it seems to be not satifying for you.

But, just one comment, you tend to say that Members have big power on 
the W3C and that the process is not publically available. You feel it 
as a tyranny, a kind of dictature, but have you think to the power of 
free time in mailing-list.  Imagine a public open system mailing-list 
but only with the right of one message by day by person in the list. 
In the XML-DEV list, in fact, I feel your post negatively, it's bad 
and I regret it. But too many posts that make a noisy atmosphere 
finally...

Try just to synthetize your ideas and not post so often. [It should 
be my first message this month :) ]
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Karl Dubost / W3C - Conformance Manager
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