Re: TAG and WWW Architecture

St.Laurent Simon <simonstl@simonstl.com> wrote:

>> Moreover, the public's trust does and will ultimately rest in the
>> continued soundness of the recommendations that W3C publishes.  The
>> point where those recommendations show up with faults (other than
>> self-serving resistance in certain instances of some in the community)
>> will be the time to object.
> 
> I'm afraid that the 'faults' of Namespaces in XML have already raised
> objections, though I certainly can't comment on whether they are
> self-serving or not.
[...]
> I don't think any of this is surprising, nor do I think it likely that a
> TAG would have done anything to improve the public trust in these
> specifications.

Folks, please, let's not turn this into a bash-the-W3C session -- they get
enough of that already. Instead, let's try and keep on-topic with
constructive solutions about how the W3C can improve their openness, without
sacrificing too much.

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