- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 06:15:08 -0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
As of today, I will, on a consulting basis, be representing Netscape's interests in the XML standardization process. Netscape (along with apparently everyone else in the world) is highly interested in metadata and schema architectures, and has near-term requirements for the standard to progress in this area. The various proposals that have been flying around are pleasing and, at least on the namespace issue, the prospects for building consensus on something simple and useful seem very good. We feel that the proposals to date have left a couple of important areas unaddressed, and will be submitting a position paper sometime in the next week to help move things along in this area. Of course, everyone's top priority for the remainder of June has to be those remaining XML-lang warts and getting XML-link beaten into usable shape. People need to be able to do relatively fear-free implementations starting July 1. It would seem that the world's demand for improvements in the XML family of specifications will exceed the world-wide supply of expertise/time to build those improvements, at least for now. We'll just have to do our best with what we've got. Finally, speaking for myself, I should make it clear that I am not a Netscape employee; while I will be representing Netscape's interests within this process (it helps that I agree with them about most things) I am in no sense a Netscape spokesperson, and nothing I say, in particular nothing I say outside the confines of the official XML process, should be taken as having any relation to Netscape's opinions or perceptions. Netscape has a highly competent staff of people who are both empowered and properly skilled to present the Netscape viewpoint to the outside world; I am not among them. Cheers, Tim Bray tbray@textuality.com http://www.textuality.com/ +1-604-708-9592
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