[thelist] Re: Why code for standards

Bev Corwin bev at enso-company.com
Tue Feb 5 11:31:00 CST 2002


Cool!  Sounds like good experience to draw from.  I'm not a statistical
analyst,  but I would welcome some real hard facts on the various
"demographic" issues.  I hear a lot of attitudes, and personal experiences,
personal preferences, etc.  I do wish there were more stats available on the
demographics of the www users vs. the demographics of the W3C, and other
orgs for that matter.  From a service business perspective,  wouldn't it
make sense to find out more about your "users" to better serve them anyway?
Just seems like good business to me.  In a voluntary organization,  I'm also
confused why they wouldn't welcome the additional support, of course, unless
there are some *interests* or *issues* I'm unaware of.  As an observer,
they do bring up many questions, to me anyway.

Bev

----- Original Message -----
From: "Luther, Ron" <Ron.Luther at COMPAQ.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:06 AM
Subject: RE: [thelist] Re: Why code for standards


> Hi Bev,
>
> I agree that generalizations can be a bad thing.
>
> I used to have some 'real facts'.  ;-)  My 'generalization' comes from a
> statistical analysis that I conducted using the billing records for a
> fairly good-sized [Bell System] telephone company in the Midwestern
> United States and a lot of work I did statistically analyzing their
> "small business" market.  [Since telcos charge 'business' customers a
> different rate than 'residential' customers they tend to keep pretty
> good and complete records on business customers.]  I'll stand by (or
> re-clarify) my claim that [by count] *most* small businesses do not have
> the resources to participate directly in the formal standards setting
> process.






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