The standards process

Jul 31, 2012

A quote from Tim Bray:

Standards-making is a boring, bureaucratic, unpleasant process, infested by difficult people and psychopathic institutions. Some “standards” turn out to be useful; most are ignored; some are actively harmful. And looking at which organization the standard came from turns out to not be very useful in predicting what’s going to happen.

That’s the process I know - it’s a good summary. And he’s not talking about the same