Re: Open Standards Processes (WAS Re: Nesting XML based languages and scripting languages)

len bullard (cbullard@hiwaay.net)
Fri, 24 Apr 1998 18:42:36 -0500

David Megginson wrote:
>
> Len Bullard writer:
>
> > >This is an old gripe of mine about the XML process as conducted by
> > >this effort. It is not open. That has troubled me from the
> > >beginning because it is an open effort to replace an open
> > >standard, SGML, with a closed standard, XML. It is a horrible
> > >precedent even if a successful one.
>
> Frank Boumphrey writes:
>
> > Bravo!! Well said!!!
>
> Can I download a free copy of the ISO 8879:1986 spec?
>
> All the best,

Good question and valid. It has also been a
subject of complaints for years. OTOH, up to
the point of publication, most of the work
which contributes to it is maintained on a
freely accessible site.

len