RE: Collected Works of SAX

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

Although, and it may seem inconsistent on my part, if it hasn't 
got a home, I'm in favor of it going to OASIS based on 
the policies they use to keep things accessible.  They 
have some good rules about the labeling of such assets 
that enable them to stay public.  We had to look at this 
for HumanML and the OASIS rules are as open as it is 
possible for an org to be.   Ask yourself how fast 
SAX is changing, how and and what breadth of people 
should have input, what to do when people have to 
drop out, etc., then look for an org that fits those 
constraints.   For example, for VRML97, ISO enabled 
both the ISO version and the W3DC version of the 
standard, thus an ISO standard and a W3CD open version. 
They are kept in parallel and that seems to satisfy 
everyone.

Private may conflict with open; open does not conflict 
with kept in the commons.   As long as one neither steals 
the goose from the commons, nor the commons from the goose, 
the public needs are generally met.  Preserve options 
but choose according to case.

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

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


-----Original Message-----
From: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@pacbell.net]

That didn't exactly get resolved the last time it came up;
there was a stall around the time Oasis got mentioned,
as I seem to recall.  There's an issue that Len has been
mentioning lately:  privatizing public resources.  I'm not
keen on giving SAX to any consortium, myself.