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10/2/2002 11:31:54 AM, Norman Walsh <ndw@n...> wrote: > >So, if you're lucky, you get a relatively small working group with >strong technical leadership doing something with a relatively narrow >scope that no one particularly cares about before it's finished. > >If you're not lucky, you get a large working group containing lots of >people with competing agendas, no single clear technical vision, >working in an area that lots of people assert is desperately >important. > >If you know how to solve these problems, I see the Nobel Price for >Peace in your future. Yup. I'll repost my favorite URL on this subject: James Gosling's tongue-in-cheek mathematical treatment of the problem (written about 12 years ago!) http://java.sun.com/people/jag/StandardsPhases/ "For a standard to be usefully formed, the technology needs to be understood: technological interest needs to be waning. But if political interest in a standard becomes too large, the various parties have too much at stake in their own vested interest to be flexible enough to accommodate the unified view that a standard requires."
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