RE: [xml-dev] Is Web 2.0 the new XML?

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

> 
>There are more failures from the self-constituted groups of amateur 
>standards writers than there are successes.  You are going to quote back 
>to me the few notable successes from the amateurs but they are fewer 
>than their counterparts.  Don't confuse myth for math.

How does a standards writer acquire professional standing, please?

And can you give an example of a group that is not self-constituted?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/