On 7/16/05, Lucas Gonze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > About a formal standards process, as far as I can tell the only two Bigs > involved right now are Apple and Yahoo. Is there anybody else? > > We can assume that Y! would be pretty friendly. It's not a given that > they would participate, but it's plausible. Apple, though, is a > different story.
Apple is a pretty good Web standards citizen. Here's an example: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/2005JulSep/0063.html > Is there any reason to think that they would take it seriously? I would ask the opposite question. Why should they take yet another "nonono, use *my* fork" conversation seriously? The last one didn't go real well. It's important to realize that choosing not to standardize carries a risk as well. For example, an Evil Cadre of Large Corporations and Their Pawns could standardize something similar. If something like that happens, your evangelism effort will probably take more time and energy than a standards organization would. The risk of someone else doing something similar in a voting-based standards organization is pretty high, and the damage/good of such an effort is unkown. Each standards organization's process is a known quantity. I would jump first if I were you. Robert Sayre
