[thelist] Re: Why code for standards

[Bev Corwin]

The fact that small businesses are excluded from standards groups by the
mere fact that the way the standards groups are organized and the price for
membership is so high,  not to mention the prudish attitudes of many of the
standards group leaders......makes a lot of the "standards" information,
especially during the standards development process, unavailable to the
smaller, independent, non - corporate sector professional groups.   If the
standards groups were not so contentiously biased in favor of larger
corporations in their standards development processes, as well as their
various educational, conference and other development events, etc,  I
believe you would find more small, independent businesses participate in
these "standards" efforts.  You claim there is a need,  and I agree with the
general idea,  of the need for standards.  But in the case of most of the
current standards organizations its more a problem of "how" things are done,
that limit the wider acceptance and practice of these standard "ideals".
Unfortunately,  the problems with standards organizations is that they are
simply extensions of large corporations,  exclusive to independent
contractors and small businesses.   By making your "standards" organization
so exclusive,  how can you realistically ask such a question?  It is simple
that the small businesses were / are "excluded" by these practices,
therefore,  the question should be to them:  "Who would *want to* do that?"
Why would they want to participate in the deployment of something that they
were so obviously and prudishly excluded from in the first place?

Bev

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Subject: Re: [thelist] Re: Why code for standards


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> Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers
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> Time for a bit of devil's advocacy:
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> Why do we want to code for standards? Is it to avoid the
> extra work involved in multiple sets of coding plus the
> intelligence to serve the correct one?
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> Now I can see the point of that in a booming economy when
> we're all overloaded with work, but that's not the case anymore.
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> Times are hard. We're short of work. We have to work our backsides
> off to find it.
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> So why are we turning away free work handed to us on a plate? And
> more - there are a lot of people who *only* know standards (or one
> browser). Knowing how to code round a lot of them is a competitive
> advantage - sell it to your clients as a 'must have' requirement for a
> professional, and you lock out your competitors.
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> Who wouldn't do that?
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> Cheers
> Martin
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> > But in the end you code for browsers, not for
> > standards (though the two increasingly overlap).
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> But I think that's exactly it, we are tired of coding
> for browsers. We want standards. We want to code for
> standards.
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