Re: IRI working group approved by IETF, call for volunteers for co-chair with W3C/IETF experience

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote:
> And the idea that a language specification and technical standard should
> “ideally” have “a set of steps introduced with a MUST requirement, which can
> be blindly implemented with little thought, with no interpretation needed”
> is itself counter-productive; the areas where the HTML specification does so
> are harmful, produce normative requirements which are harmfully
> over-restrictive as to implementation technique or wind up over-specifying
> requirements in ways that are ultimately anti-competitive.

Maybe this is off-topic for this list, but I've seen this notion of
over-specification being anti-competitive raised before.  Can you
explain why that is specifically?

Adam

Received on Sunday, 24 January 2010 21:49:29 UTC