Public open specs

[Dalibor Topic]

On 12/ 8/08 12:49 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Dalibor,
>
> On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 17:25 +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote:
>   
>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>     
>>>> Getting all these JSRs published freely and openly without click-through
>>>> like you want to do for the JVM spec would solve all these issues.
>>>>         
>>> Couldn't agree more.  Why is it the specs for TCP (an RFC) and HTML
>>> (W3C recommendation) are published openly on the web, yet the JSR
>>> specifications are hidden behind pages of legalese?  Whether its onus
>>> or not, it still has to be read and approved and is enough to
>>> introduce doubt into people's minds.  If we could just load up a web
>>> page and read them with no click-throughs, life would be much easier.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Thank you both for taking the time to explain your concerns, and
>> provide me with a toolchest of arguments to pick from.
>>
>> I'll go work on my poking tools now.
>>     
>
> Much appreciated. Please do let us know what the progress/timeline is.
> If we can do anything to speed things up, just yell. Should we move this
> thread to the general discuss mailinglist?
Since I'll be at Devoxx later this week, and a bunch of other people 
involved should be there, too,
I plan to have some face to face conversations about it there and then. 
Usually finding time to
get everyone in the same spot to discuss such issues is really hard in 
my experience, as everyone is
terribly busy doing all kinds of other OpenJDK (un)related things, but 
that's exactly what
conferences like Devoxx are for. ;)

cheers,
dalibor topic


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