From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,49f51dddd21e54de X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 124bd9,49f51dddd21e54de X-Google-Attributes: gid124bd9,public From: kst@sd.aonix.com (Keith Thompson) Subject: Re: Ada UK web pages Date: 1997/04/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 237292197 Sender: news@thomsoft.com (USENET News Admin @flash) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pulsar References: <335b3f24.8679026@news.geccs.gecm.com> <5j7je2$llr@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com> Organization: Aonix, San Diego, CA, USA Newsgroups: gec-marconi.comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.ada Originator: kst@pulsar Date: 1997-04-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > Brian said > > < at http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/REC-html32.html . This is not ISO or > BSI but it is produced by the standards group of the Web.>> > > OK, fine, that's what I thought (that there is no standard in the legal > sense for the Web, this is just an "industry" standard). The distinction > is a significant one, especially since the original message was trying > to draw a connection between the Ada "standard" and the Web "standard", > but in fact they are standardized in quite a different meaning of the > word -- and what is important is that Ada has a legal standard. I am > not saying that industry "standards" are not important, they are often > quite important, just that we have two very different meanings of the > word, which should not be confused. But ISO, ANSI, and BSI are all non-governmental organizations. I'm not 100% sure about BSI, but the ISO and ANSI web sites state this very clearly. See: ISO is admittedly more widely recognized as a standards body than, say, W3C or even IEEE, but I don't see any *fundamental* sense in which an ISO standard is more "legal" than a industry standard from some other organization. Ada 83 was also a U.S. military standard as well as an ANSI/ISO standard, but I don't think Ada 95 is. (On the other hand, even W3C refers to HTML 3.2 as a "Recommendation" rather than a standard.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@sd.aonix.com <*> TeleSo^H^H^H^H^H^H Alsy^H^H^H^H Thomson Softw^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Aonix 5040 Shoreham Place, San Diego, CA, USA, 92122-5989 "Humor is such a subjective thing." -- Cartagia