Open Standards Processes

[Frank Boumphrey]

Actually most writers wouldnt mind paying the $500 out of their own pocket
just to relieve the wear and tear on their stomach lining!!

Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Bosak <Jon.Bosak at eng.Sun.COM>
To: xml-dev at ic.ac.uk <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
Date: Saturday, April 25, 1998 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: Open Standards Processes


>[Tim Bray:]
>
>[... good stuff that I completely agree with ...]
>
>| 4. A couple of people made the excellent point that it's tough to
>| produce a book on one of these specs in a timely and accurate fashion
>| if you're not inside the process.  It seems to me that it would be of
>| huge benefit for the W3C if such books were easier to produce.  It
>| might make all sorts of sense for the W3C to have "writers'
>| memberships" - non-speaking access to the materials of one activity or
>| another.  Such memberships wouldn't be free, a cost of perhaps $500 or
>| so would bring it well within the bounds of a book-publishing budget
>| while discouraging frivolity.
>
>I think that's a really excellent suggestion.  And the cost should
>come out of the publisher, up front.
>
>Jon
>
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