John Stracke said:
Promotion comes from companies promoting
their own products that incorporate the standards;
Thankyou! This is why I thought it would be a good idea to have Microsoft
embracing DC.
Let's face it - they will either embrace DC or develop their own ... they
have to do _something_ ... I'd like to see that something be DC. If not,
whatever they develop will be a powerful competitor to DC.
Getting them to embrace it is not necessarily the samre thing as forming an
alliance!
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Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
> M$ is not the right institution or partner for DC promotion, as goes
without
> saying, but some resourceful institution will have to be found to promote
> and, more importantly, maintain DC, in the long run.
Not necessarily. Most Internet standards do just fine with no designated
entity to promote or maintain them. similarly, maintenance is
done by companies who want new features in the standard so they can extend
their products. This works better than having someone in charge, because
the
standard isn't as susceptible to being hijacked or abandoned. (Of course,
every individual company might abandon the standard; but then it probably
wasn't worthwhile, was it? :-)
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