• To: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Subject: Re: rss regularis(z)ation
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:53:15 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
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Mike Champion wrote:

> Right.  The W3C is probably far too slow moving for the RSS community, 
> and few of them are members.  But more importantly, the W3C works by a 
> consensus-driven process.  The Browser Wars were bloodless, chivalric 
> skirmishes compared to the RSS vs/+ Pie/Necho/Atom/whatever wars. I 
> don't remember anyone's addictions or mental illnesses being brought up 
> in DOM Level 1 debates, anyway <duck>.
> 
> Their best bet IMHO is the IETF, where "rough consensus and running 
> code" speak louder than money and affiliation AFAIK. 

That's what I've been saying.  We'll see.
-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)

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