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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (21517)	11/17/1998 5:18:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

>>> I understand your point. This is an issue for the standards committees. I disagree. Standards committees do a lousy slow job of improving things and doing designs, left entirely to themselves. Innovators and stake holders have to come up with designs and then present them or create fait accompli's and then present them. With Linux that's Linus and a few others in a core cooperative network. With C++ that was Stroustrup et al. You always have to have dynamic but consensual leadership, with the committees as a brake and a jury and very occassionally as innovators. The committees are for peer review, not design, most of the time. That is how Netscape created everything from Javascript to second generation HTML. I am alarmed that a Netscape person would think that Netscape has anything but the primary browser/HTML language designer responsibility. Because if you don't, nobody does. If you quit now you will be passed by. If you are waiting for Java to fill these needs you are deluded. If you don't take responsibility, net standards and improvements will become a dog's breakfast, and that will please you-know-who all too well. Netscape, step up to your responsibilities! >>>NSCP could provide a solution to this problem, but as you said, since MSFT would not support it, it would not be usable.<<< I did not say that at all. With all due respect, and you know that I do respect you from our previous exchanges, you guys need to wake up if this is a typical attitude at Netscape. It sounds old and tired. Chaz