{"id":111,"date":"2007-07-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/2007\/07\/stranger-than-fiction.html"},"modified":"2007-07-20T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T21:00:00","slug":"stranger-than-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/stranger-than-fiction.html","title":{"rendered":"Stranger than Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/blog\/images\/ecma.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is taken from slide 21 of Ecma&#8217;s &#8220;Standards @ Internet Speed&#8221; presentation (22 June 2007 version) which you can download  <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecma-international.org\/activities\/General\/presentingecma.pdf\">here<\/a>.  It appears to be a sales pitch.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/blog\/2006\/12\/how-to-write-standard-if-you-must.html\">joked<\/a> about the Ecma process before, but I never thought I&#8217;d see it written out officially like this.  Standards are made available &#8220;on time&#8221;?  Minimize the &#8220;risk&#8221; of changes?  I thought the whole purpose of technical review was to find the problems and fix them?  As always, the man who pays the piper calls the tune.<\/p>\n<p>(Also, you  gotta love the &#8220;wink and nod&#8221; approach to patents on slide 16, where they can pretend a problem doesn&#8217;t exist if one member disputes that a patent is essential to implement the standard.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is taken from slide 21 of Ecma&#8217;s &#8220;Standards @ Internet Speed&#8221; presentation (22 June 2007 version) which you can download here. It appears to be a sales pitch. I&#8217;ve joked about the Ecma process before, but I never thought I&#8217;d see it written out officially like this. Standards are made available &#8220;on time&#8221;? Minimize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ooxml","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}