Thanks. john --On Tuesday, February 18, 2020 11:59 -0500 Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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.
