Comments on: Open Web foundation presentation .. Who polices the Open Web?

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By: Ajit Jaokar

Ajit Jaokar — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:33:52 +0000

Hello David
Thanks for the comment. I did not mean to be too critical! Also, as I said the issue is critical and I shall be blogging about it in greater detail. An international focus is definately good. The BBC is an odd beast here .. ie the state funding means that they can pontificate .. (and we pay them license fees) – yet they reduce programming on science and tech(see David Attenborugh link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7376936.stm) . I shall be happy to join and also promote this organization since it addresses a critical issue which I think many people do not recognise yet(and blogs on this coming soon!) many thanks again kind rgds Ajit

By: David Recordon

David Recordon — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:58:56 +0000

Hi Ajit,
I don’t really disagree with a lot of what you’re saying. We started out very “West Coast” centric with the exception of the BBC, though certainly want to change that. I think if you take a look at the mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/open-web-discuss) you’ll see that we’re actually starting to build a diverse community.
I certainly respect the work that the Microformats community has done and I hope that had come through when I talked about Microformats on slide ten. The idea of “small pieces loosely joined” is certainly one which has since been embraced by OAuth, OpenID, and other communities as well.
Our goal isn’t to create one organization to rule everything; just like there are many different places to go and do Open Source work today. Rather try to start standardizing the legal policies between these open web specs, like Open Source licenses did many years ago, and provide a body where they can come together and work if they’d like to.

By: Nicola

Nicola — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:59:17 +0000

I am in favour of trying to produce web standards too in order to produce reliable and accessible web applications and pages. I am not a technical specialist in this area and can’t visualise how you can bring openness into one foundation, or how that is possible to achieve?