Re: [syndication] Re: Total confusion in RSS-Land

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 04:19:53PM -0500, Jeff Bone wrote:
> 
> 
> > The complexity added in by the W3C process (IMO) is inappropriate
> > for the work we're doing.
> 
> Agreed!  Anarchy works, btw.  The IETF is a great example.  All it takes is
> rough consensus, working code.  (Though IMO the IETF has begun to have its own
> political problems, that's due to size and being "loved to death" by MS, Lotus,
> etc.)

The IETF is good at spending a lot of time working on very technical
standards, not application-level standards, which are much more political
(as we see here).


> You don't need membership, voting, hierarchy, etc. etc.  You just need people
> willing to put a stake in the ground without getting their ego all wrapped up in
> little technical nits.

I think we've well and truely passed that point here, on all sides. 


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Mark Nottingham
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