[huml-comment] RE: Human Markup Language 1.0 considered harmfulREvisited

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Again,

Some short further thoughts.

On the small group of self-appointed standards writers:

This bothered me a lot until I started working with the one of the 
largest of such groups, the Web Services for Interactive Applications 
and Web Services for Remote Portals TCs, and I discovered that a core 
of about 7-10 individuals did most of the work and conducted most of 
the discussions. It turns out that this is the case for most TCs.

The main difference is that the main participants in these other TCs 
are mostly paid by their companies, such as IBM, BEA, Sun and many 
lower-tier industry notables. Those TCs do have many more voting 
members, but our extended family of mailing list lurkers is probably 
wider in terms of the range of interests beyond simple ecommerce. I 
have discovered that such efforts are usually carried by the few, but 
O how I would love to have more participants. While we haven't done 
every possible outreach conceivable, we have attempted to bring more 
participants into this effort. It is a bit difficult when we are 
almost all volunteers and busy with the work itself as well as our 
lives outside this effort.

I hope we hear from some other folks on this collection of withering 
criticisms.

I have refrained from going into particulars of my own pet project 
for HumanML:  Multi-User, Interactive, Real-Time, 3D-Virtual-Reality 
Environments with standard VRML/X3D/H-Anim representations of humans 
(avatars) capable of standards-based emotions and gestures in 
addition to the other basic human behaviors of walking, running, etc.

Of course the subcommittee I will be switching my efforts to will 
include the hard sciences of medicine and biology--including the 
newest work on biometrics. We will derive the working terms for these 
from the Primary Base Schema by extension and restriction, all of 
which will adhere to and/or include or import the accepted standards 
from these fields, as we adhere to name and address standards in the 
primary base vocabulary.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving, all,
Rex
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Rex Brooks
Starbourne Communications Design
1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA 94702 *510-849-2309
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