Re: Fwd: Re: [xml-dev] W3C Successes (RE: [xml-dev] W3C Culture and Aims )

Mike Champion <> writes:
 > 4/22/2002 7:59:13 PM, <> wrote:
 >
 > >I do think that the W3C has had some pretty big
 > >successes, including HTML and XML.
 >
 > Hmm, the last of these was more than four years ago. And both of
 > them resulted from the W3C's "old" role as a place where vendors can
 > come together to define interoperability profiles of reasonably
 > well-understood technologies.

As for the first point, I think you really need a few years to see how 
successful a technology will be in the marketplace, and what problems it 
causes in practice. That's why I chose technologies I consider very well 
established.

One of the ramifications of new technologies is you simply don't know right 
away how successful they will be. Personally, I think that XQuery and Web 
Services will also turn out to be real successes, but we shouldn't proclaim 
that until after the marketplace has adopted them.

Jonathan