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RE: [xml-dev] ISO and the Standards Golden Hammer (was Re: [xml-d ev] You call that a standard?)
- To: "'Rich Salz'" <rsalz@...>
- Subject: RE: [xml-dev] ISO and the Standards Golden Hammer (was Re: [xml-d ev] You call that a standard?)
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@...>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:39:34 +0100
- Cc: "'Ken North'" <kennorth@...>,<xml-dev@...>
- In-reply-to: <40926CD9.2090700@...>
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> > It used to be a rule that ISO was not allowed to start new
> work, it was only
> > allowed to ratify work submitted by one of its member bodies.
>
> How long ago was this? Perhaps I'm showing my naivete by
> conflating ISO
> and ITU. (I'm certainly not alone in that; most folks think of X.xxx
> standards as ISO things, viz the ISO seven-layer reference model.)
I'm not an expert, but I seem to recall that when ISO started doing SQL work
in the 1980s there were objections raised. I believe a lot of the things we
know as ISO standards were actually developed in ECMA.
Michael Kay
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