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> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu]
>
> At 10:39 AM -0400 5/17/02, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>
>
> >Imagine the consternation when the dozen or so participants
> >realized that EVERY National Body had voted "NO", and,
> >moreover, with NO constructive comments! The approach was seen
> >as too complex, too ad hoc, and (because it still left
> >everything requiring an
> integral number
> >of octets) insufficient to produce efficient encodings of
> things like
> >"SEQUENCE OF BOOLEAN". It was quite clearly dead in the water.
> >
>
> What strikes me as most interesting about this is that people
> outside the working group effectively had veto power over the
> spec. If it had been left to merely the group producing the spec
> to decide when it was done, this would not have happened. I can
> think of at least two major W3C specs that would possibly have
> been vetoed if people
> outside the working group were allowed to vote,
I thought that, the AC reps and ultimately the W3C director decree
what gets to recommendation status.
Bill de hÓra
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