> -----Original Message-----
>
From: Ken North [mailto:ken_north@compuserve.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 12:53
PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: W3C press release:
comments on standard-setting
>
>
> Previously we discussed
standards, and there were comments about
> W3C being a technology
incubator, not a standards organization.
>
> That is not the current
thinking at W3C --
I've ranted about this enough that I don't
want to start again ... but
XML 1.0 is a "Recommendation" and XML Schema is
about to be a
"Recommendation". XML 1.0 *is* a 35-page,
well-understood, de-facto
standard whose interoperability "gotchas" are well
charted.
Schema is a 250-page excursion into Terra Incognita as far as
real-world
interoperability of the nastier bits is concerned.
I'm OK
with the idea of the W3C "incubating" the Schema spec to the next
level, but
doesn't calling it a "standard" that can stand alongside XML 1.0
demean the
value of the term? If Schema is a Recommendation, shouldn't XML 1.0
be
something more, like a "Strong Recommendation" or "W3C Standard" or
something?