Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
W3C, IETF, ECMA, etc. are industry standard groups with world wide accepted open discussion processes! I am curious. Which prevalent computer standard would *you* accept as a "Standard"? Are you talking about BIS standards or ISO standards or what?
OK. By "standard", you meant those "industry standard groups with world wide accepted open discussion processes". I like "vendor neutral free and open specifications" that I often hear of, better. Defining standards would help to reason clearly why foo is ok but foo_bar is not ok. Intl. orgs where governments are well represented are best suited to do this task of defining standards, and it is easier that way to have std. gov. policies that can be very easily followed or enforced.
Are you trying to say that it is acceptable to use a single-company proprietary standards (like MS IE extensions, Active X etc.) but not acceptable to use open Industry standards?
No.