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That is why we have to lash them together with knives. :-)
In the sense that no organization ever demonstrates
complete competence 24x7, I have to agree. However,
we are seeing the emergence of multiple consortia
now attempting to spec and standardize overlapping
domains. It could be useful to have ISO as the
arbitrator given that they (as I define them)
get the lawyers and marketeers. Let them do the
short sword work. They are trained for it.
We have a global system that is reaching down
and up into every corner of our lives. We must
have an agreed upon means to make choices given
the emergence of competing factions for control
over those choices. I'd like to say that this
can be done by the W3C, but I don't think it
can. The polity is wrong and does not include
representation for all who are affected.
len
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com]
Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
... mostly sensible stuff ...
> What will be hard for the consortia to
> accept is that while they are writing specifications,
> the authoritative documents at the
> highest level of governance are the ISO standards.
In this particular alternate universe, TCP/IP withered away in the face
of the highest level of governance, which was insisting on OSI
networking. We all use ODA to exchange documents. And the world-wide
web is based on ISO 10744.
It is not useful to believe that at any absolute level, any
consortium/institute/standards body is any better than any other. Judge
'em by what they produce. They all have hits & misses. -Tim
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