Re: Role of W3C in Open-Microblgging, and standards for the Social Web in general? from Renato Iannella on 2009-10-12 (public-xg-socialweb@w3.org from October 2009)

From: Renato Iannella <renato@nicta.com.au>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:50:12 +1000
To: <public-xg-socialweb@w3.org>
Message-ID: <6AD064F4-0437-4505-B02D-9D274F223552@nicta.com.au>

On 10 Oct 2009, at 04:57, Harry Halpin wrote:

> 1) The W3C: Has a clear, well-defined process for producing
> 2) IETF: The IETF has the advantage of having a totally open process
> 3) DIY: After all, one can just post a web-page up and see if anyone

Having done all three (;-), you need to ask what outcome you are after  
and the best "home".

Stuff has always gone from 3) to 1) and 2)...and even jointly by 1)  
and 2).

My (biased) view is that stuff higher up the Web tree should be done  
at W3C, and lower level stuff at IETF.

Having said that, the Social Web has taken W3C by surprise (a good  
one) and I think it needs to change to be more reactive as well.

Cheers...  Renato Iannella
NICTA

Received on Monday, 12 October 2009 01:54:23 UTC