• To: "'Rick Jelliffe'" <ricko@a...>,"'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Avoding a repeat of W3C XSD - was Re: Is Web 2.0 the new XML?
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:00:18 +0100
• In-reply-to: <1706.203.164.53.107.1124408934.squirrel@i...>
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> 
> >>2) Maximum two-year membership of working groups (2 years 
> on, 2 years
> >>off). This will encourage smaller specs and encourage fresh eyes on
> >>problems.

You would either finish within the two-year deadline, or you would never
finish at all. To finish a spec, or anything else, you need the
self-discipline to stop adding things. People coming into the process
half-way through find it very hard to do that. Whether you're new to it or
an old hand, it's always easier to add things than to take things out.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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