intertwingly

Damien Katz: Yay! CouchDB has an official IANA port number … This must be how Steve Martin felt in The Jerk when he got his name in the phone book

Brendan Eich: Standards often are made by insiders, established players, vendors with something to sell and so something to lose. Web standards bodies organized as pay-to-play consortia thus leave out developers and users, although vendors of course claim to represent everyone fully and fairly.  I’ve worked within such bodies and continue to try to make progress in them, but I’ve come to the conclusion that open standards need radically open standardization processes.

The W3C HTML Working Group needs a CarterPhone.  Clearly, Brendan is talking about ES4, but the issues he brings up are general.

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