Re: Excessive use of interim meetings

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Tue, 18 February 2020 16:59 UTC

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From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:59:44 -0500
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Subject: Re: Excessive use of interim meetings
To: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
Cc: Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>, Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>, IETF Discussion Mailing List <ietf@ietf.org>
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 3:46 PM John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> wrote:

>
> > W3C didn't scale either, we ended up having to create OASIS.
>
> Huh?  According to my memory and their web site, OASIS is the
> renamed descendant of an SGML-oriented both created in around
> 1993.  I remember organizational and Advisory Committee of W3C
> in the last half of that decade, so it is a bit hard for me to
> figure out how scaling problems with W3C were diagnosed early
> enough to lead to a new organization in 1993.
>

OASIS was originally formed as an SGML organization with IBM as the main
backer. It was essentially re-invented when IBM and Microsoft decided to
work together on Web Services and the Web Service stack.

In corporate terms, it was a reverse merger. XML-OASIS was a very different
thing from SGML-OASIS.