- From: Anthony B. Coates <abcoates@TheOffice.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:06:34 +0100
- To: "www-tag" <www-tag@w3.org>
** Reply to message from "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com> on Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:50:52 -0700 > I sincerely hope it isn't considered part of the TAG's mandate to > "co-erce" working groups that have domain expertise and know the related > considerations into making decisions simply satisfy the hungering of > external parties for a holy writ from the W3C. It *is* TAG's job to coerce working groups into producing works that are architecturally consistent. The problem with the working groups is that they do have domain expertise, but not the big picture, so that without a group like TAG providing oversight & coercion, individual WGs are likely to produce solutions that are not properly consistent with the solutions of other WGs. It's an absolutely normal social and organisational occurrence. It's not so much that the W3C is in the business of doing holy writs, but it is the only credible authority in the area, so it is important that it addresses difficult issues faced by users of its specifications, and versioning is a prime issue. If the W3C does nothing, users will use versioned namespace URIs, of that I can assure you. Cheers, Tony. ==== Anthony B. Coates, Information & Software Architect mailto:abcoates@TheOffice.net MDDL Editor (Market Data Definition Language) http://www.mddl.org/
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