STOP: Re: Standards, Work Groups, and Reality Checks: A Radical

Eric W. Sink (eric@rafiki.spyglass.com)
Mon, 25 Sep 95 09:31:50 EDT
I'll be blunt. As chair of the group, I do not believe that threads
like this are productive for this forum. Please STOP the thread, and
take it elsewhere if you like.

Most people who actually participate in this group are motivated and
interested in open standards, interoperability, and forward progress.
This group's more long-standing participants know we have made some
mistakes that slowed us down. We're learning from them.

If have the same interests, and you want to work constructively
on HTML, you are entirely welcome here.

If have the same interests, and you want to work constructively
on something new, then you are entirely welcome, somewhere else.
You'll probably find people from this group will be interested in
joining any exciting new effort which aims for the same goals we do.

> HTML is an experiment gone Frankenstein. It is time to learn
> from the mistakes and start a *new* experiment.

The temptation to start over retains its ever-present allure. If you
are successful in creating a movement of people who want to begin
from scratch, I support you. Until then, we have several technical
discussions which merit the bandwidth of this list. Please take
discussion of your idea to another forum. Thanks.

Eric W. Sink
eric@spyglass.com http://www.spyglass.com/~eric/