Kevin A. Burton wrote: > The big companies (Microsoft, IBM, SUN, etc) have been the ones creating the > standards. IETF, JCP, W3C, etc are all good examples.
Actually I think the IETF is the exception, which is why I think it could be a good starting point if people wanted to do their own standards. I've just finished working on this draft: http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-ciphersuite-06.txt I don't work for a big company, and we don't have any direct interest in this draft. I just wrote it because it seemed like an interesting thing to do. It took a long time but it is now approved and is waiting for the RFC Editor to get round to publishing it. If anything it helped that I wasn't from a big company because I wasn't pushing any particular agenda. > It would be interesting to see if the Open Source process could work for > *creating* standards. At the very minimum it woul be interesting... Exactly. Open source produces high quality software, but too often it is just a free clone of something commercial. Of course some open source projects do take the lead, but it would be nice to see this happening to a greater extent. -- Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
