RE: Divide the problem

> Labeling the documents as "experimental" sure would make this easier
> to accept.

As I understand it, this is part of why the W3C publishes only
Recommendations, not Standards. You shouldn't call something a standard
until it has been widely adopted by the industry and has been used long
enough that you really believe it's stable. Viewed that way, the entire web
is still in glorified beta-test mode.

But this distinction has been generally ignored in the mad rush to get
products onto the market and capture eBusiness mindshare.

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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research

Received on Thursday, 8 June 2000 15:31:19 UTC