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Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: WAI Icons. Was: Include default text?

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Oct 26, 2004 5:17AM


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, iain wrote:

> > And from the formal
> > standpoint, the W3C doesn't even claim to be a standards body; it is an
> > industry consortium
>
> I think you are incorrect. The W3C defines the standards.

Occasional abuse of the word "standard" does not make the W3C a standards
body.

Recognized international standardizing bodies are listed at
http://www.wssn.net/WSSN/listings/links_international.html
You won't find the W3C there.

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/