On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 3:46 PM John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> W3C didn't scale either, we ended up having to create OASIS.
Huh? According to my memory and their web site, OASIS is the
renamed descendant of an SGML-oriented both created in around
1993. I remember organizational and Advisory Committee of W3C
in the last half of that decade, so it is a bit hard for me to
figure out how scaling problems with W3C were diagnosed early
enough to lead to a new organization in 1993.
OASIS was originally formed as an SGML organization with IBM as the main backer. It was essentially re-invented when IBM and Microsoft decided to work together on Web Services and the Web Service stack.
In corporate terms, it was a reverse merger. XML-OASIS was a very different thing from SGML-OASIS.
