Re: [xml-dev] RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication

[cbullard@hiwaay.net]

And the said broken-standards and specs from the mega-man committees  
those catastrophically ignorant specs set out to replace enabled the  
technologies that started the modern global web as some suffer it.

A man with a solution to a problem defends the problem and so it goes.

A bit more concentration on privacy and security would have been  
helpful but one man's suffering is another man's advantage in  
obtaining power and other people's property.

The U.S. House committee has already approved HR 1981.

len

Quoting John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>:

> Uche Ogbuji scripsit:
>
>> Never mind the small detail that said catastrophically ignorant
>> and broken specs brought us the modern, global Web as we enjoy it
>> today while people were toiling in mega-man committees te world over
>> on que-perfecto über-specs that never really ended up seeing any
>> practical use.
>
> Oh, you mean like XML Schema?
>
> --
> John Cowan  cowan@ccil.org  http://ccil.org/~cowan
> If he has seen farther than others,
>         it is because he is standing on a stack of dwarves.
>                 --Mike Champion, describing Tim Berners-Lee (adapted)
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