- From: Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 May 95 20:34:30 -0700
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: erik@netscape.com, html-wg@oclc.org, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>> Many of the sites are not "customers". They are universities taking >> part in this great thing called WWW. Why should anybody consciously >> destroy the interoperability that these folks are enjoying? > >People always confuse 'writing the standard' with 'making people >change their code or server'. What we write as the standard for HTML >2.0 won't become the standard for at least 6 months. We *don't* have >to include the transition plan in the same document that includes the >standard. We're not "destroying" interoperability by writing down a >standard that we think is the right thing to do, especially if we >think there *is* a transition plan. I agree that a separate transition plan document could be a good idea. Erik
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