• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 14:14:18 -0500

At 10:23 AM 1/8/01 -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>The problem is authority and credibility.  If 
>the public statements of the authorities are 
>at odds with the policy as expressed in the 
>record of authority, credibility suffers.  
>One can privately agree to disagree, but the 
>public statements make for political problems 
>which will turn into technical problems. 

Which only gets more complex when the design issues docs at the W3C and
early Notes get cited as axiomatic.

(http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Architecture.html)
(http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-webarch-extlang)
(etc.)

Fortunately, pointing this out on a regular basis does some to keep it down
somewhat.

Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books

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