- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 19:43:02 +0200
- To: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>, PSIG Group <member-psig@w3.org>
Aryeh Gregor, Fri, 1 Apr 2011 13:04:57 -0400: > > The only way to guarantee that the W3C is as good a place to develop > standards as possible is to establish open competition and allow other > venues to provide innovative advantages in developing standards, even > if those standards were started at the W3C. That is the only policy > that will advance open web standards as much as they can be advanced > -- even if that's sometimes at the expense of the W3C. The W3C's goal > needs to be to advance web standards, not to advance itself. Trying > to prevent forking is unmistakably a policy designed to advance the > interests of the W3C, not the web. Another way to ensure comptetition is to ensure that anyone can enter the W3C space and start to write _their_ spec there. Leif Halvard Silli
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