RE: [xml-dev] The year is 2027, and we need to examine archived XML docu

[Len Bullard <len.bullard@uai.com>]

Enlightened self-interest?

I can't think of a way that doesn't depend on someone somewhere keeping an
agency alive.

Shades of The Foundation (with a black hole in the role of Trantor: a
singularity as organizing principle)!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(novel)

len

From: Ken North [mailto:kennorth@sbcglobal.net] 

Isn't there an inherent problem that there are 
dependencies (namespaces and schema) on www.W3.org and www.snia.org? What 
assurance is there those domains will exist for 20 years, much less 100?
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