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____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 05 June 2008 23:20 : \____
> bbgruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>>> "egg" and "face" are the two words that come to mind..... although in
>>>> these parts, "they buggered it up between them" might well be better
>>>> understood!
>>>
>>> The egg-throwing routine was lame.
>>
>> Oh dear - my fault.
>> I'd quite forgotten *that* episode!
>>
>> Nono - I really did mean that both MS and ISO ended up with egg on their
>> face:-)
>>
>
> Unfortunately, most standards bodies suffer similar potential weakness,
> because /someone/ has to put the work in. The IETF is one of the
> weakest here, because you only have to turn up to vote, but contrarily,
> if you're not there, you *lose* your vote completely.
>
> I think that the best way forward might be to move these bodies away
> from using behind-closed-doors plenaries to a fully open and visible
> voting process, perhaps held online.
>
> There is no reasonable excuse for ignoring the thousands of issues
> raised, instead, a full and detailed discussion should've taken place,
> perhaps by email, with publicly available email list records, so that
> everyone could see it happening.
>
> I think that whatever happens, the ISO will never be the same again.
> It could never be seen as being fully above board, instead, there will
> always be a suspicion of corruption about whatever they do.
They recently approached the IEEE and there's worry that they
couuld 'contaminate' them too, personnel- or reputation-wise.
- --
~~ Best of wishes
"Linux is a very complete and sophisticated operating system. And there is a
lot of work being done to improve it in and of itself, particularly to make it
easier to use and easier for people to set up on their personal computers."
--Paul Maritz, Microsoft
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