Quoting David More <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Where would the internet be without an effective IETF and W3C? I see all this > a similar challenge which will need pretty wise heads to sort out. Indeed, but it';s important to note the key to the success of the IETF has been: - all docs on the web, in plain text, for free. - no patented tech - all core technologies have a working open-source implementation *at release* IETF has no enforcement mechanism, instead they make sure it's easy and cheap to comply with the standard, so people do. If a set of standard archetypes are widely published and free (in all senses), people will use them for communication without the need for a big offical (read expensive) governance stick. AFAICT if people use site-specific descendant archetypes for their own storage or within their organisation, that's not a disaster as they can "fall-back" to the standard ancestor for exporting the data. Is that right? Ian _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
