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Actually most writers wouldnt mind paying the $500 out of their own pocket just to relieve the wear and tear on their stomach lining!! Frank -----Original Message----- From: Jon Bosak <Jon.Bosak@e...> To: xml-dev@i... <xml-dev@i...> Date: Saturday, April 25, 1998 12:53 PM Subject: Re: Open Standards Processes >[Tim Bray:] > >[... good stuff that I completely agree with ...] > >| 4. A couple of people made the excellent point that it's tough to >| produce a book on one of these specs in a timely and accurate fashion >| if you're not inside the process. It seems to me that it would be of >| huge benefit for the W3C if such books were easier to produce. It >| might make all sorts of sense for the W3C to have "writers' >| memberships" - non-speaking access to the materials of one activity or >| another. Such memberships wouldn't be free, a cost of perhaps $500 or >| so would bring it well within the bounds of a book-publishing budget >| while discouraging frivolity. > >I think that's a really excellent suggestion. And the cost should >come out of the publisher, up front. > >Jon > > >xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... >Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ >To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >(un)subscribe xml-dev >To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >subscribe xml-dev-digest >List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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