On 25 February 2011 03:26, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Danny Ayers wrote: >> >> At the other end of the scale, at the 'living spec' end, what safeguards >> are there to prevent a single vendor setting the agenda with the >> features it has in the pipeline? > > They're all always trying to do that. That's what competition is about. > This happens regardless of the spec (indeed, it happens even without > specs). It's not a problem specific to the "living standard" model.
But with a versioned spec there is a finite boundary for a particular version, and while a single vendor may still dominate there's only going to be room for features A, B and C. With a "living standard" it's open-ended, a single vendor can continually influence the trajectory by proposing features D, E, F... -- http://danny.ayers.name
