Re: [xml-dev] Keeping ISO 8879 Alive (was RE: [xml-dev] Markup pe rspective not code)

Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

... mostly sensible stuff ...

> What will be hard for the consortia to 
> accept is that while they are writing specifications, 
> the authoritative documents at the 
> highest level of governance are the ISO standards. 

In this particular alternate universe, TCP/IP withered away in the face 
of the highest level of governance, which was insisting on OSI 
networking.  We all use ODA to exchange documents.  And the world-wide 
web is based on ISO 10744.

It is not useful to believe that at any absolute level, any 
consortium/institute/standards body is any better than any other.  Judge 
'em by what they produce.  They all have hits & misses.  -Tim