- From: Dave Carter <dxc@ast.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:23:34 +0100 (BST)
- To: Jukka Korpela <jkorpela@cc.hut.fi>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Jukka Korpela wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, MegaZone wrote: > > > There are a great many people who don't consider ISO the end all and be > > all of standards boards. And a few of us who laugh at the thought. A > > world run by ISO would grind to a halt. > > I definitely appreciate ISO in general, but not all things can be > standardized along the same procedures. As regards to HTML and the Web, > the ISO standardization process is too slow (and the slowness of that > process is basically inherent, for reasons which justify the long > delays in many areas). We can't simply wait for years to have > the next development phase of standard HTML, so it is better to live > with e.g. W3C standards "only" instead of ISO standards. You mean that things will only become standards if they have been thought through??? Perish the thought. > The practical question is how to shoot down the ISO HTML standardization > effort as fast as possible. (There might be good ideas on the draft, > deserving due consideration by W3C, of course.) I'm pretty sure that > it is relatively easy to convince _one_ national standardization body > about the whole thing (of HTML standardization _by ISO_) being a wrong > idea, thus preventing the approval by ISO, but this would by the hard way, > from the viewpoint of wasted human resources. Any better ideas? Support it. Push your ideas of what the standard should be through your national standards body. Dave Carter
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