Re: [ALSC-Forum] Straw Poll

[Stephen Waters]

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 04:48, DPF wrote:
> 
> I'm still waiting incidentally for a member of the ALSC to provide the
> rationale for how they decided that six seats was better than nine.
> There was not a single of word of rationale for this in the draft
> report.

Their rationale was to divide the Board among users (you and me),
developers (IANA, IEEE, etc.), and producers (VeriSign, etc.). But as
anyone can see, most of those developers would be in tune with their
employers, the producers, so it would unbalance the Board. I dearly love
mozilla*, but AOL/TW/Netscape doesn't need its fingers in every piece of
the pie.

* http://mozilla.org - Mozilla is important because, like XFree86 for X
Window System, it is the main driving force in open standardization in
browsing technologies. Having said that, I think I should go fiddle with
IE6 and see how it works on mozilla's test CSS2 and XML pages...

Cheers,
-s
Who is happy to have a working email client again. Fun fun fun with beta
tech.

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