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. Promotion comes from companies promoting
their own products that incorporate the standards; 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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