nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> He also asks:  "what is a web standard?"  I'd say it's whatever that bunch of
> enterprises comprising the W3C -- including Microsoft -- do come up with in
> order to advance and to level the field for all players, including the little
> ones as he puts it.

  Maybe the relevant question is not "what *is* a standard", but more like
"what a standard *should be*".

  In an idea world a standard should be the approximate opposite of a
technological monopoly: Standardization means that basically anyone can
implement the standard, in other words, the technology becomes open.

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                                                          - Warp

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