[Previous]

The W3C

 [Next]

 

  • Close to 300 members
  • Working group decisions are only advisory; all final W3C decisions are made by the Director
  • To protect against premature disclosure of product plans, discussions are mostly visible only to members
  • XML activity has opened this up significantly through the publication of Requirements Documents
    • Show technical goals that each working group is trying to accomplish
    • Publicly visible (http://www.w3.org/TR/)
    • Open to public comment
    • Process includes periodic "checkpointing" and revision in light of comments
    • Process is currently experimental -- XML activity only
[Previous]

XML & JAVA:   PORTABLE DATA — PORTABLE CODE

 [Next]