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• Subject: W3C Successes (RE: W3C Culture and Aims )
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:23:31 -0400

4/22/2002 7:59:13 PM, <jwrobie@m...> wrote:

>I do think that the W3C has had some pretty big
>successes, including HTML and XML.

Hmm, the last of these was more than four years ago.  And both of them resulted from the 
W3C's  "old" role as a place where vendors can come together to define interoperability 
profiles of  reasonably well-understood technologies.  That is clearly not what the Schema, 
Query, or Semantic  Web working groups are doing.  "Purely academic" is not a reasonable 
description for the W3C's focus these days, but neither is a desciption that does not reflect 
its newer aspirations to push the boundaries of Web/XML technology. 

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