Tim Williams wrote:
I think it's unfair to suggest that the communication medium had any effect on the XHTML2 debacle. I think the disagreement would have occurred regardless of it being on irc, email, or even skype.
I did not say that the disagreement was *caused*, or even contributed to by IRC.
What I said was that IRC as the communications medium caused some members of the community to be excluded from the design discussion.
Ross
