Re: [xml-dev] When to create a standard (was XQuery and DTD/Schema?)

From: "Jonathan Robie" <>

> We would be better off with a process for revisiting W3C specifications 
> after some period of time. For instance, perhaps a Recommendation should 
> have a lifetime of 3-5 years, after which it is replaced with a real standard.

Err, don't you mean "a Recommendation should have a lifetime of
less than three years, at which time it should be replaced by something
as big as possible"?

:-)

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe