• To: "'Rich Salz'" <rsalz@d...>,"'Ken North'" <kennorth@s...>
• Subject: RE: ISO and the Standards Golden Hammer (was Re: [xml-d ev] You call that a standard?)
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:26:01 +0100
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0404300912110.15041-100000@s...>
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> I believe when most folks say "what has ISO done," they want 
> examples that
> started in ISO (or ITU, most folks comingle them), rather than another
> phase on an existing work.  If all you need is the latter, 
> than just have
> ISO versions of IP, TCP, HTTP/1.1, and SSL.

It used to be a rule that ISO was not allowed to start new work, it was only
allowed to ratify work submitted by one of its member bodies. So that's not
a very good test!

Michael Kay

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