- From: Alexander Philippou <alex@noemax.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:57:28 +0300
- To: <public-exi-comments@w3.org>
- Cc: "'Paul Pierce'" <prp@teleport.com>
> The WG seems determined to take what I and apparently many others feel > is obviously the wrong direction on this issue. This is always a danger > when trying to make a standard based on an existing implementation, > since the implementors must properly be closely involved but will > usually advocate strongly for the status quo. This happened in the > first standards committee I was on long ago, the implementers mostly > had their way and, I think partly because of that, the standard > ultimately failed. I don't know if that is whats happening here but the > effect is the same. > > I will try to summarize my arguments for IEEE floating point here for > reference. I would urge anyone else who agrees to add their view at > this time. +1 Alexander Philippou
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