And Tom W said:
>
>As far as I know W3C is an industry forum and doesn't have formal status
>with ISO.
>
As I understand the situation, Tim Berners-Lee and the W3 Consortium made
the deliberate decision *not* to proceed thru the ISO, as the time taken at
the ISO was considerably longer than the half life of a W3C "standard". I
guess we've worked with RFCs for many years and who's heard of being
governed by a standard which is a "Request for Comment", for goodness sake!
<g>
Roger Debreceny