"Dave Winer" <dave@...> writes:

> So I guess it would be fair to say that if an outsider looked at
> this, that there is no precedent for the transition that took place
> here, this is not how open source projects or W3C or IETF projects
> fork.

Right, I don't recall ever seeing anything like this before.

> Some people have said that the community decided to go in the
> direction of Namespaces and RDF, but it's clear that that did not
> actually happen.

It's clear that it was not a unanimous decision, yes.

-- Ken