Re: Standards, Work Groups, and Reality Checks: A Radical Proposal.

Benjamin C. W. Sittler (bsittler@prism.nmt.edu)
Sat, 23 Sep 95 15:39:21 EDT

It is most definitely *not* time to disband this working group. The groups
primary and secondary goals have *not* been achieved, at least not to the
satisfaction of the HTML community at large. We need to throw the existing
specification fragments together into a DTD and slap a version number on
it. This should buy us (and www-html) some time to develop full "3.0"
HTML. We should probably postpone those sections that seem intractable
(or nearly so) to 3.0 or even 3.1 (this may include Internationalization.)
Disbanding the WG now would only serve to Balkanize standardization
efforts and stop all furthur development of the language.

Destroying the WG would be a great loss to the WWW, both individual and
corporate users, especially in the long view. We need a truly versatile
language, but we probably shouldn't wait for that before we
standardize something.

Amateur HTML Author

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