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Rick Jelliffe wrote:

> What purpose does ISO bashing by a TAG member serve, apart from promoting 
> factionalism? Stockholm Syndrome perhaps :-)   Tim calls a spade a spade, 
> but it is possible to have a souring experience anywhere, whenever one's particular
> use-case is not recognised as being significant by a committee interested in taking
> standards in a different direction.

Er oops sorry.  While I agree with most of what Rick says, I deny that I 
was ISO-bashing.  The two points I think I've been trying to make are

(a) SGML loyalists who trumpet its virtues on this list without any ISO 
process involvement should feel nervous
(b) Every standards organization has hits and misses, virtues and vices 
and any argument that starts with "It comes from 
{ISO/W3C/Eccma/WS-I/whatever}, so..." can be dismissed.

Hey, I plug in electrical devices and use Celsius temperatures all the 
time, a world without ISO would be unimaginable.  -Tim





 

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