RE: [xml-dev] a standards story

From
Bill de hÓra <>
To
'Elliotte Rusty Harold' <>, "'Simon St.Laurent'" <>,
Date
2002-05-17T16:41:22Z
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RE: [xml-dev] a standards story
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:] 
>
> At 10:39 AM -0400 5/17/02, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> 
> 
> >Imagine the consternation when the dozen or so participants
> >realized  that EVERY National Body had voted "NO", and,
> >moreover, with NO  constructive comments!  The approach was seen
> >as too complex, too ad  hoc, and (because it still left
> >everything requiring an 
> integral number 
> >of octets) insufficient to produce efficient encodings of 
> things like 
> >"SEQUENCE OF BOOLEAN".  It was quite clearly dead in the water.
> >
> 
> What strikes me as most interesting about this is that people
> outside  the working group effectively had veto power over the
> spec. If it had  been left to merely the group producing the spec
> to decide when it  was done, this would not have happened. I can
> think of at least two  major W3C specs that would possibly have
> been vetoed if people 
> outside the working group were allowed to vote, 

I thought that, the AC reps and ultimately the W3C director decree
what gets to recommendation status.

Bill de hÓra


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