The short list had flame wars too but in private.  The web's power to
index was well understood.  The triviality of the web is that it can't
index what it can't see, so it believes only what it can.

... Opus Dei didn't con man.  It was an organization secreted inside OD.
Plausible deniability. ;-)

len 


From: David Megginson [mailto:david.megginson@g...] 

On 05/06/06, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@c...> wrote:

>    http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-961114#secC.
>
> I hope this helps.  (note that the "." at the end of the above is 
> significant)

Thanks, Ken -- I should have checked my email earlier, but I'm glad that
everyone found the answer so easily.  People used to worry that the web
was too ephemeral for preserving important information, so it's worth
noting that it was trivially simple for people to pull up a list of
people on a couple of committees ten years ago, without having to haul
boxes out of our basements and search for old printouts or floppy disks.

Note that the original XML WD, which Ken cites, contains two separate
lists of people.  The second one listed is the SGML Editorial Review
Board (ERB), which (confusingly) would later become the XML Working
Group; they're the ones who were directly responsible for the XML
spec:

   1. Jon Bosak, Sun (jon.bosak@s...), chair
   2. Tim Bray, Textuality (tbray@t...), editor
   3. James Clark (jjc@j...), technical lead
   4. Dan Connolly (connolly@w...), W3C contact
   5. Steve DeRose, EBT (sjd@e...)
   6. Dave Hollander, HP (dmh@h...)
   7. Eliot Kimber, Passage Systems (kimber@p...)
   8. Tom Magliery, NCSA (mag@n...)
   9. Eve Maler, ArborText (elm@a...)
  10. Jean Paoli, Microsoft (jeanpa@m...)
  11. Peter Sharpe, SoftQuad (peter@s...)
  12. C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, U. of Ill. at Chicago (cmsmcq@u...),
editor

What is called the "SGML Working Group" in the document Ken pointed to
(~60 members) would later become the XML SIG, a broader (but still
confidential) group that provided discussion (and frequent flame wars)
to support the XML WG's work.  Eventually, the next layer outside of
that was this XML-Dev mailing list, which represented the public layer
of XML discussion.