On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:31:16AM +0100, Markus Kuhn wrote: > > ISO has become a bit of a religious cult for some. The hurdles ISO puts > up for the creation, review, acceptance and dissemination of standards > do little to increase the quality of the resulting specifications. As a > result, the vast majority of information technology standardization is > done today outside the slow and restrictive ISO/IEC framework.
Markus, I believe you are living in the past, at least with these observations. ISO has moved a lot on review, acceptance and dissemination of standards, and IMHO the quality of the ISO standards are much better than things produced by some industry consortia. And normal users like you and me may actually influence and play a role in ISO standardisation, in contrast to what is happening in industry consortia. ISO need not be slow in its development of standards. Yes, some industry is now doing standardisation in consortia, but I think that is mainly so that they can avoid influence from anything else than big industry. Linux was created by programmers all over the world and has a proud tradition of lettin the man on the floor rule. Let's not now put all tho power to som big industry companies. best regards keld -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
