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To: Lynn who wrote (23992)	12/4/1999 2:11:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Respond to of 64865

A key piece in this article is the bit about control. I believe that Sun is very serious about wanting Java to be a standard, but most standards bodies, ECMA among them, are painfully slow in the standards approval and revision process. This would be damaging to the rapid evolution of the language such as we have been seeing the last couple of years with the acronym soup of additional features that have come out, many associated with J2EE. If these features took three years to go through an approval process to become a standard and everything was up in the air in the meantime, this would have a very dampening effect on the evolution of the language and its adoption for enterprise computing. Nimbleness is called for. This is why Sun originally proposed to put the control of the standard in the hands of the Java community, which ECMA originally accepted, but then rejected. What would probably be the most desirable in terms of the evolution of the language would be a benevolent "dictatorship" like the W3C, but naturally that has its own issues.