W3C and Non-native Speakers

MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)

IBM Tokyo Research Lab. / International University of Japan

My background

Member of the original XML Working Group that designed XML 1.0

Rebel of the W3C XML Schema WG

Co-founder of RELAX NG (OASIS and ISO/IEC) and NVDL (ISO/IEC)

What blocks non-native speakers

Latin (e.g., ab initio)

Overtalk

Succinctness

Other organizations

ISO/IEC

• Letter ballot by national member bodies
• The use of "may not" is disallowed, since this phrase is ambiguous (prohibition? guess?)
• Google "may not" W3C Recommendation site:www.w3.org

 

OASIS

• Non-English TCs are allowed.