to RFC or not (was: Re: Toward Closure on HTML )

Marc Andreessen ([email protected])
Tue, 5 Apr 1994 16:59:24 GMT


> In Dan's elaborate message he wrote:
>
> > "OWNERSHIP" OF THE STANDARD
>
> > Making HTML an internet standards-track RFC involves more overhead
> > than is warranted. In the future, the HTML specification will be
> > published as informational RFCs (FYI documents) from the WWW team at
> > CERN.

With all due respect to Tim and the CERN team, I am currently dubious
of the idea that they will have the time to pursue this at the level I
think a lot of us feel it deserves (standards-track or not). I feel
the community should do what it can to distribute the effort involved.

Marc